Youk was not the first person Kevorkian had helped to die, but he was likely the last. In 1999, the seventy-year-old Kevorkian was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to jail for ten to twenty-five years.
What Kevorkian had done was deliberately...hasten another person's death, an act of active 'euthanasia'... Acquitted of the charge of assisting suicide by three juries in the 1990s, Kevorkian crossed the line in