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...Mexico, American plant pathologist Norman Borlaug starts developing high-yield grains that, two decades later, will fuel the green revolution...
...Minutes" and in which Kevorkian administered the lethal injection himself. This fifth trial was also his most serious yet: Kevorkian was charged with first-degree murder, and the jury convicted him of second-degree murder. The judge set sentencing for April 14, at which time the 70-year-old pathologist could be put away behind bars for life...
...offered him a ride. They drove him to a deserted corner of the backwoods and, after a struggle, chained him to the truck by his ankles. Then they dragged him for three miles along a rural road outside Jasper. Byrd was alive for the first two miles, a pathologist testified at trial, and deliberately twisted his body from side to side, trying to keep his head from hitting the pavement. He may have been conscious at the time of his death, when his head was finally torn off by a concrete drainage culvert. Lawmen later found Byrd's head...
Kevorkian, however, is the only one who has stepped forward to proclaim himself a mercy killer on national TV. A retired pathologist, he first came to prominence in 1990 when he helped a relatively healthy 54-year-old woman with Alzheimer's disease kill herself with a suicide machine of his invention. Since then he has assisted in more than 130 suicides. "He's the Tom Paine or the Martin Luther King of our movement," says Girsh. "He's willing to break the law for the cause." But to his critics he is an unrepentant killer who harbors an unhealthy...
...kills another on national television. What do the authorities do next? Answer: Very little. Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the retired pathologist who has admitted helping over 130 terminally ill patients end their lives, threw down the gauntlet to prosecutors Sunday after CBS's "60 Minutes" aired a tape in which Kevorkian commits the act himself. "Either they go," he said, "or I go." Kevorkian has been tried and acquitted three times on assisted suicide charges; his lawyer says he now wants to force a "high noon" confrontation with the police. If convicted, the self-styled Dr. Death says he will starve...