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LANSING, Mich., Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Dr. Jack Kevorkian will be paroled in June after promising not to assist in any more suicides, a Michigan prison spokesman said Wednesday.
Kevorkian, who will have served more than eight years in prison for a second-degree murder conviction he said was a mercy killing, received the reprieve from a two-member Michigan Parole Board panel, the Detroit Free Press reported.
Kevorkian's murder conviction was in connection with his role in the 1998 death of Thomas Youk, a 52-year-old Lou Gehrig's disease patient from Michigan's Waterford Township.
Kevorkian provided videotape of the assisted suicide to CBS's "60 Minutes," which aired it. He was sentenced to 10-25 years.
Now 78, Kevorkian suffers from an array of ailments, including hepatitis C, diabetes and liver and heart disorders, his lawyer says. He underwent hernia surgery in February 2005.
Kevorkian claims to have assisted in at least 130 deaths in the 1990s.
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