As he watches his life fade, the imprisoned Dr. Death isn't sorry he killed his patients - he regrets getting caught:
"He did what he did, and it brought it to public awareness [of physician-assisted suicide]," said Kevorkian's attorney, Mayer Morganroth. "He now realizes that having performed it when it was against the law, wasn't the, probably, appropriate way to go about it. … What he should have done was work towards its legalization verbally. … Pursuing that cause, and not performing it because it still was against the law."
Doctors have told Jack Kevorkian he has less than a year to live, which prompted him to apply for a commutation of his sentence, a pardon that would get him released from prison. Despite admitting, without remorse, to purposefully violating the law by assisting in the suicide of over 100 people, Kevorkian is asking the state for special treatment. Despite his illness and certain demise, refusing Kevorkian’s request for release is just. And it is also merciful. What he needs more than freedom is redemption and incarceration is a deafening call to repentance and peace with God. Following a commuted sentence, Kevorkian will surround himself with reassuring friends, individuals who will re-enforce the false nobility of his depraved life, and encourage him to remain obstinate and unrepentant.
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