Washington,
(ANI):
Al
Pacino
is
set
to
play
Dr.
Jack
Kevorkian,
a
former
pathologist
most
noted
for
publicly
championing
a
terminal
patient''s
right
to
die,
in
an
HBO
biopic.
The
acting
legend
will
star
in
the
Barry
Levinson
project,
which
concentrates
on
Kevorkian"s
construction
of
his
infamous
“Mercy
Machine" and
his
first
assisted
suicide
in
the
early
1990s.
Kevorkian,
who
claimed
to
have
assisted
at
least
130
patients
to
meet
their
end
and
famously
said
that
“dying
is
not
a
crime",
served
eight
years
of
a
10-to-25-year
prison
sentence
for
second-degree
murder,
reports
Variety
magazine.
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