Jack Kevorkian, a man accused of second-degree murder that spent eight years in prison, announced at a news conference Monday, March 24, he wants to run in the November election as an independent for a congressional seat representing Detroit’s suburbs.

In 1998, he helped Thomas Youk, 52, of Waterford Township, a man with Lou Gehring’s disease to die through assisted-suicide. His nickname was “Dr. Death” and he said he was the advocate of assisted-suicide because he felt it was his right, according to Associated Press.

That year, he showed a video of himself assisting in Thomas Youk’s suicide on CBS’s “60 Minutes.”

Kevorkian, 79, will challenge a Republican, Joe Knollenberg. With 3,000 signatures, he may run in the November elections.

He will try to promote the Ninth Amendment, which protects rights that are less known because they are not clearly specified elsewhere in the U.S. Constitution. He pleads for defending one’s right to die through assisted suicide if one’s health is in critical condition.

“These are natural rights,” he said. “You can’t create rights by law. Every law is an infraction of liberty. I’m fighting for my rights. If you get yours in the process, fine,” the Royal Oak Daily Tribune reports. 

Kevorkian fights against a “tyrannical” government, which gives rules that people are forced to obey and against the U.S. Supreme Court, which are characterized as “liars.” During a period of 8 years he had helped numerous people to die, he claims.  

Regarding his health, Kevorkian said he is dealing with Hepatitis C, temporal arthritis and high-blood pressure.