Use condemned prisoners for organs and tissues?

Question

Wouldn't society benefit by dismantling condemned (to be executed) prisoners for their organs and other tissues.
1 One prisoner could save maybe a dozen lives (heart, lungs, blood, etc.)
2 Could also just make people's lives better (cornea transplants).
3 Could do some good to help pay for the (presumed) evil that person had done

Answer 1

It sounds like a good idea but if you really think about it it is just sick. It would put the U.S. on the same level as N. Korea who extracts the collagen out of the skin tissue of the dead prisoners to put into expensive skin cream. And lord only knows what else is going on there.

Yes, I understand that it would help desperate patients on the donor list. I lost a close family member who was on the list. So, I can understand the great need out there for these patients that is why I am a donor.

It just seems evil to use condemned criminals body parts. Would a patient to receive such parts even agree if they knew whom it came from? If indeed the future recipient is to agree, there is always a chance of rejection, perhaps a subconscious rejection knowing that it belonged to an evil outcast of society.

On the upside it would scare the **** out of future criminals, might scare them straight. Who knows.

Answer 2

Thankfully I live in the UK and we don't execute people as we don't have the death penalty.

Found this

Deceased (formerly cadaveric)
Deceased donors are donors who have been declared brain-dead and whose organs are kept viable by ventilators or other mechanical mechanisms until they can be excised for transplantation. Apart from brain-stem dead donors, who have formed the majority of deceased donors for the last twenty years, there is increasing use of Donation after Cardiac Death - DCD- Donors (formerly non-heart beating donors) to increase the potential pool of donors as demand for transplants continues to grow. These organs have inferior outcomes to organs from a brain-dead donor; however given the scarcity of suitable organs and the number of people who die waiting, any potentially suitable organ must be considered.

So it would be better to not execute if you want the organs so not sure how you would get around that.

Ah well it is not an issue in the UK so I don't have to think about.

Answer 3

This idea is in fact extremely appealing, though ethically and morally wrong. Once in H.S. we had the debate of; "why not use prisoners for scientific testing instead of innocent animals?" When we finally exhausted and set aside the ethical and moral issues of the debate there was still the contention that some people are convicted wrongly and did not commit the crime they are serving for. Even if they are put to death for the crime wouldn't it heap insult on top of injury that not only were they wrongly killed but suffered beforehand.

Answer 4

I hate to declare it, yet no, i do no longer think of so. There are purely constrained transplant organs obtainable, and that i do no longer think of that they might desire to bypass to human beings condemned to die, or perhaps to human beings set to spend something of their lives in penitentiary. it sort of looks like a waste, given all the different people who want them besides. Plus, as you could understand, organs won't be able to be donated after a individual is complete, because of the fact that cutting-part execution strategies all render them unusable. So, the organ would not even have the potential to bypass to somebody else after the execution.

Answer 5

I'm against the death penalty - too many have been freed from death row, if we had faster executions we'd've killed alot more innocent people.

As for forcing the condemmed to be dismembered for organs, I think even the condemmed should maintain this much free will. The Commie Chinese dismember the condemmed. Do you wanna be more like them?

Answer 6

Considering many prisoners have engaged in "high risk behavior", would you really want their organs/tissues?

Answer 7

That's not a bad idea. Why waste perfectly good organs?

Answer 8

I read a science fiction book about this, I think its morally wrong, no ones body deserves to harvested without their approval alive or dead, what does their crimes have to do with their bodies?

Answer 9

I AGREE,
THE PROBLEM IS TO GET OUR GOVERNMENT TO AGREE,
THERE IS SO MUCH WASTE IN THE WORLDS AS IT IS NOW..

MAYBE SOME CONDEMMED PRISIONSERS DO OFFER THEIR ORGANS,,
THE ONES THAT WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE, AND PAY BACK SOMETHING TO SOCIETY,,

I HOPE YOU GET THAT BILL PASSED,,
IT IS WORTHWHILE.

GOOD LUCK

Answer 10

Sure why not? And maybe the leftovers (bone marrow) could be used for research. Just make sure they're dead first....