Kevorkian to be paroled in June

? After more than eight years behind bars for murder, an ailing Dr. Jack Kevorkian will be paroled in June on a promise not to help anyone else commit suicide, prison officials said Wednesday.

Corrections Department spokesman Russ Marlan said the parole board took the 78-year-old Kevorkian’s declining health into consideration, along with the question of whether the former pathologist would be a danger to society if he were set free.

Over the summer, Kevorkian’s attorney said that Kevorkian was suffering from hepatitis C and diabetes, that his weight had dropped to 113 pounds and that he had less than a year to live. Last Thursday, Kevorkian promised the parole board he would not take part in another suicide if released.

Kevorkian is serving 10 to 25 years at the Lakeland Correctional Facility in Coldwater, about 100 miles southwest of Detroit, for second-degree murder in the 1998 poisoning of Thomas Youk, 52, of Oakland County.