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The student news site of Baldwin High School, est. 1999

The Bulldog Bulletin

The student news site of Baldwin High School, est. 1999

The Bulldog Bulletin

Michael Jackson jury got it right

Many may think that pop legend Michael Jackson killed himself by taking too many drugs but my thoughts along with others, are a bit different. I believe that Jackson was murdered by his own personal doctor not just for fame, but for money.

Jackson was found dead in his home in Los Angeles by his personal physician Dr. Conrad Murray on June 25, 2009. Jackson died at the age of 50. Fans of Jackson’s believed that he died from cardiac arrest or homicide but investigators reported that Jackson died from “acute propofol intoxication,” combining with a drug cocktail including the pain killer Demerol, as well as lorazepam, midazolam, benzodiazepine, diazepine and ephedrine. After all of the reports, looks went to Murray.

Murray is on trial for allegedly killing Jackson who is said to have been given a fatal dose of a powerful anesthetic, a drug insensitive to pain. Murray gave the pills to Jackson at night to help him sleep. According to A&E Television Networks, later after Jackson’s death, Murray told the police that he believed Jackson had become addicted to a particular propofol, wanting them more and more to help him go to sleep. As a doctor, Murray should know how much you can give someone and how much you can not, making him guilty of his death for giving him the drugs.

Jackson had the drugs by I.V. in the evenings in 50 mg dosages. A police investigation found that Murray was not a licensed prescriber to most controlled drugs in the state of California. Evidence showed that the care for giving propofol was not met and the equipment recommended for patient monitoring and precision dosing were not met either.

With the wealth that Jackson had, he could have very easily paid Murray a lot of money for the drugs he wanted. Whether it meant that giving him the amount wanted could kill him, he still did it.