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In the 10 years since, the situation for death-row inmates seeking to donate has hardly changed: U.S. prison authorities consistently refuse to allow death-row procurement. We believe that it is time to revisit the issue. While Caplan's commentators rebutted his narrow contention that organ procurement would undermine the goals of deterrence ...
- The History of Organ Donation
- Inmates as Organ Donors
- Consent in A Coercive Environment
The idea of transplanting organs as a medical cure is quite old. In 600 B.C., skin flaps were used for replacing missing noses, and 16th -century surgeons considered taking grafts of a patient’s tissue for another patient. But the practice of organ donation and transplantation began in earnest only in 1954, when Joseph Murray carried out the first ...
Garcia and Gonzalez are not the first state officials to propose turning to prisoners to help with the organ supply problem in recent years. Some of those cases are quite unusual. For example, in 2010, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour suspended the life sentences of two sisters, Gladys and Jamie Scott, on the condition that Gladys donate one of her k...
Some scholars do not think that prison inmates can freely consent to organ donation while being in the coercive environment of a prison. They regard inmate organ donation as exploiting a vulnerable population. And even some who believe that inmates should be allowed to donate organs were troubled by the initial proposal from Garcia and Gonzales. As...
May 6, 2023 · In the 10 years since, the situation for death-row inmates seeking to donate has hardly changed: U.S. prison authorities consistently refuse to allow death-row procurement. We believe that it is time to revisit the issue. While Caplan's commentators rebutted his narrow contention that organ procurement would undermine the goals of deterrence ...
Jan 6, 2021 · Michael Flinner is the author of “A Portion of Thyself: Essential Reflections from Death Row.”. He is proactive in efforts to support living inmate organ donation legislation and is working on supporting laws that would allow inmates to donate organs for transplants to immediate family members in need. Flinner is incarcerated in California.
Feb 2, 2023 · In July 2022, a Texas prisoner on death row sought to delay his execution so he could make a kidney donation. Utah became the first state to allow organ donation in 2013, if they die while incarcerated. Federal prisoners are allowed to donate organs to family members. It is unclear how state prisoners in Massachusetts are able to.
Nov 16, 2021 · Whether to allow death row inmates to donate organs is a more complex issue than meets the eye, some experts say. The Mississippi Anatomical Gift Law does not specifically exclude inmates from ...
Sep 8, 2014 · 8 Sep 2014. Death Row Mikko Luntiala. (ccby 2.0) There is no question that, in many cases, it is ethically wrong to kill. But is it possible for it to be ethically wrong to save a life? In an “ethically troubling” situation in November 2013, death-row inmate, Ronald Phillips, requested to donate his organs (his kidneys to his mother, and ...
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