Is it a good idea to harvest the organs of death row inmates?

No, it can lead to a slippery slope where there is an incentive to give more death penalties, based not on the law but because these organs are so valuable. The whole idea of valuing one person's life over another. So it potentially creates a conflict of interest that interferes with justice.

Jurors will potentially think, "well if I give him the death penalty, then there will be organs for more people, and I don't like the person anyway"... and so they are swayed from the law. At any rate, more and more law enforcement is operating as a "for profit" organization, trying to fund its operations with fines and the like which add incentive for law enforcement to operate outside the law to give more citations. There are a plethora of instances of this occurring, it is rampant.

For example police targeting speeders entering the city limits in order to fund government operations, and so on. In this case it could also happen, with the organs eventually becoming a profitable exercise, under the guise that we need some revenue from the organs to finance their removal after the death, and it would just escalate from there. Why would we want to emulate China in about anything?

Their human rights record is atrocious.

This makes complete sense to me. Death row inmates should be STRONGLY encouraged to become organ donors if their organs are healthy enough to be considered for donation. Maybe encouraged through a better selection of foods to eat or other incentive program from the point at which they decide to become organ donors.

I say encouraged because I do not think that the inmate should be required to become an organ donor after all they are his/her organs. I can see some folks having problems with one of their loved ones getting a heart from a murderer or rapist etc but the possible organ recipient would, not that I could imagine, ever have a problem with where their life saving new organ(s) came from.

I believe the best answer in this situation is the moderate answer. If a death row inmate opts to donate their organs, then their status on death row should not interfere with the timely delivery of their organs. Some people on death row may even see this as a form of repentance, while in other cases it may simply be making "the best of a bad situation".

If the prisoner agrees to this then it is a good idea. I would hope that most people would want to be an organ donor so that they could help give life to those left on this earth. It is the last gift that we as humans have left to give.

I know that I would be so grateful to a donor if they helped save the life of my loved ones. If it can help improve the quality of life for others then I am all for it!

Considering death row inmates die by injection of chemicals in some fashion, I'm not sure those organs could reasonably be cleared to be transplanted into a patient. Also, when you consider the death row inmate population and the likelihood of illicit drug use, I'm not sure most people would WANT an organ from a death row inmate since it's likely to cause problems for the recipient anyway. I don't think this is much of an issue in this country.

Most would say it's unethical, and many doctors would argue that it's reckless.

No, they shouldn't be allowed. You might call me crazy but I believe that part of who you are remains on your body after you die. asiaone.com/Health/News/Story/A1Story200... dailymail.co.uk/news/article-558271/Can-... redorbit.com/news/health/426766/one_in_t... Don't know about you, but would you want your daughter or son to get a heart transplant from a known murder?

I think that is a brilliant idea except in cases where there are strong religious beliefs to the contrary. It could, in fact, be a way of paying off a criminal's debt to society in non-death-row situations. For example, let's say a criminal is not on death row, they could have the option of signing up as an organ donor to help pay off a particular amount they have been deemed to owe society, a set amount, and once they sign up they don't have the option to revoke that.

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