BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, APRIL 13, 1999) JIM MORET, CNN ANCHOR: This was sentencing day for Jack Kevorkian, convicted of second-degree murder last month. The 70-year- old advocate of assisted suicide could have been given life in prison. He wasn't. The story from CNN's Ed Garsten.</s>ED GARSTEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It was the last time Jack Kevorkian would stand as a free man for at least six and half years barring appeals. His sentence for injecting a sick man with lethal drugs, 10 to 25 years behind bars. In delivering the sentence, Oakland County Judge Jessica Cooper said, "This case had nothing to do with Kevorkian's crusade for the right to end one's own life."</s>JUDGE JESSICA COOPER: We are not talking about assisted suicide here. When you purposely inject another human being with what you know to be a lethal dosage of poison, that, sir, is murder.</s>GARSTEN: Assistant prosecutor John Skrzynsky said Kevorkian got what he deserved.</s>JOHN SKRZYNSKY, ASSISTANT PROSECUTOR, OAKLAND COUNTY MICHIGAN: This was not a special case. He's not a special person. He's a man who broke the law; that's what the jury determined.</s>GARSTEN: Kevorkian was led from the courtroom in handcuffs and taken to a prisoner evaluation center in Jackson, Michigan, while authorities decide where he'll serve out his sentence. (on camera): Kevorkian says over the last nine years, he's assisted or attended the deaths of at least 130 people, daring prosecutors to try to convict him, beating them four times. But now, Kevorkian's winning streak and days of freedom are over.
CNN 20: Jack Kevorkian Sentenced, April 13, 1999