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Jul 11, 2022 · A Texas death row inmate who’d asked for his execution to be delayed so he can donate a kidney was granted a stay of execution Monday on an unrelated appeal over allegedly false testimony during ...
Jul 2, 2022 · A man on death row in Texas has requested a stay of execution, so that he may donate a kidney before he dies. The idea came to inmate Ramiro Gonzales, 39, through correspondence with Cantor Michael Zoosman, a prominent anti-death penalty advocate and former prison chaplain.
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Jul 3, 2022 · “He can’t just sign over his organs after he dies because the death drugs will poison him. So he has to do a live kidney donation before he is executed.” More related stories
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Jul 5, 2022 · A Texas man on death row is seeking a delay in his upcoming execution so that he can donate one of his kidneys. Ramiro Gonzales, 39, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on July 13 for his role in a 2001 murder, according to the Associated Press. On Wednesday, Gonzales’ attorneys made several requests to delay his execution, including one ...
Jul 12, 2022 · Gonzales has been on death row since 2006, when he was sentenced for the 2001 murder of an 18-year-old woman. He was 18 at the time of the shooting and a drug addict after an abusive childhood ...
Jul 1, 2022 · A Texas inmate who is set to be put to death in less than two weeks asked that his execution be delayed so he can donate a kidney. Ramiro Gonzales is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on ...
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Sep 8, 2014 · In an “ethically troubling” situation in November 2013, death-row inmate, Ronald Phillips, requested to donate his organs (his kidneys to his mother, and his heart to his sister), one day before he was scheduled to face lethal injection. While this life-saving intention seemed rather simple, this unprecedented case of death row donation in the state of Ohio presented a conundrum of ethical ...
