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Apr 21, 2011 · An Oregon death row inmate is mounting an aggressive behind-bars campaign to donate his organs after he’s executed, in part to repay society for the gruesome murders of his wife and three young ...
- Christian Longo
- Ronald Phillips
- Charles Cullen
Longo, 46, was sentenced to death after pleading guilty to killing his wife Mary Jane and three children, Zachary, Sadie and Madison, and then dumping their bodies in the Pacific Ocean in 2001. Longo, who currently sits on death row in an Oregon prison, wrote in an Op Ed published by the New York Timeshe wants to donate his organs after he is execu...
Phillips was 43 when he was executed in Ohio on July 26, 2017 for the brutal 1993 rape and murder of his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter, Sheila Marie Evans. He was 19 at the time of his sentencing. Like Longo, he also had requested to donate his organs at the time of his execution. Within 24 hours of his lethal injection being scheduled, original...
Once dubbed the "Killer Nurse," Cullen is a rare example of a convicted murderer allowed to donate an organ. Cullen, now 59, is currently serving 18 consecutive life sentences at a New Jersey prison. During his 16 years as a nurse in various hospitals, he confessed to murdering up to 40 patients by administering overdoses. He claimed he killed out ...
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 ...
Sep 19, 2015 · All photos courtesy of Apexart . ... But most death row inmates in the Riverbend arts program have no hope of returning to society ... This Death Row Inmate Is Dying to Donate His Organs. 27.03.14.
Jan 25, 2022 · Death row inmates have donated organs. According to A&E , two notable death row donors were Gary Gilmore and Margie Velma Barfield. The former was a well-known local thief who was ultimately sentenced to death for robbing and murdering two people in Utah. After his execution by firing squad in 1977, Gilmore's pituitary gland, liver, and corneas ...
Dec 22, 2021 · Some death row inmates have tried to donate organs while living. Delaware brothers Steven and Nelson Shelton were both sentenced to death for beating a man to death following hours of drinking in 1992. First, Nelson requested to donate a kidney to his mother, but they were found to be incompatible, and he was executed in 1995.
Apr 13, 2013 · Prison officials have not yet distributed the organ donation forms to the eight prisoners on Utah’s death row or to all of the 6,900 inmates in the system, Gehrke says. On average, about 10 ...
