Nation IN BRIEF : MICHIGAN : Kevorkian Compares Role to Executioner
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Surprising his own lawyer with his choice of words, Dr. Jack Kevorkian compared his intent Monday to an executioner’s duty to “implement justice.” Defense attorney Geoffrey Fieger asked if Kevorkian feels he is an executioner. “Not at all,” Kevorkian replied in his second day on the stand at his assisted-suicide trial in Pontiac, Mich.
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