“This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.”

— Jack Kevorkian

Quoted in "The Michigan Alumnus‎" - Page 28 - by University of Michigan Alumni Association - 1996
1990s, 1996

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American pathologist, euthanasia activist 1928–2011

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