Question for October 22-Gaurav Kane

Identify X

X was born in Pontiac, Michigan, to Armenian-American parents. He graduated from Pontiac Central High School with honors in 1945, at the age of 17. He then enrolled at the University of Michigan Medical School, from which he graduated in 1952. In 1991 the State of Michigan revoked X's medical license and made it clear that given his previous actions, he was no longer permitted to practice medicine. Between 1990 and 1998, X assisted in the deaths of nearly one hundred people, according to his lawyer Geoffrey Fieger. On March 26, 1999, X was charged with first-degree homicide and the delivery of a controlled substance to Thomas Youk.

The Michigan jury found X guilty of second-degree homicide. The judge sentenced X to serve a 10-25 year prison sentence and told him: "You were on bond to another judge when you committed this offense, you were not licensed to practice medicine when you committed this offense and you hadn't been licensed for eight years. And you had the audacity to go on national

television, show the world what you did and dare the legal system to stop you. Well,

sir, consider yourself stopped."

Terminally ill with Hepatitis C, which he contracted while doing research on blood transfusions in Vietnam,X was expected to die within a year in May 2006. After applying for a pardon, parole, or commutation by the parole board and Governor Jennifer Granholm, he was paroled on June 1, 2007, due to good behavior. He had only spent 8 years and 2 1/2 months behind bars rather than the predicted 10–25 years