DEVELOPING: Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a Michigan pathologist who championed physician-assisted suicides, reportedly died early Friday after being hospitalized with kidney problems and pneumonia.
The 83-year-old Kevorkian died at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich., his lawyer, Mayer Morganroth, confirmed to the Detroit Free Press.
Kevorkian died from a pulmonary thrombosis when a blood clot from his leg broke free and lodged in his heart, the newspaper reports.
Kevorkian was released from a Michigan prison in 2007 after serving eight years for second-degree murder. He claims to have assisted in at least 130 suicides.
Click here to read more on the reported death of Jack Kevorkian from the Detroit Free Press.
The Associated Press contributed to this report
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