Prisoners on Death Row Should Be Accepted as Organ Donors

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IntroductionRobert M. Sade, MDProShu S. Lin, MD, PhD, and Lauren Rich, RN, BSNWhy Not Allow Death Row Inmates To Donate?Why Prohibit Prisoner Donation?Practical barriersSmall number of potential organ donorsQuality of donorDifficulties from method of executionRespecting the dead donor ruleEthical or moral concernsCoercion is inevitable in donation by death row inmatesOrgan donation by death row inmates undermines moral justification of capital punishmentOpinion PollsSummaryConJay D. Pal, MD, PhDLegal IssuesMoral or Ethical IssuesLogistical IssuesConclusionsConcluding RemarksRobert M. Sade, MDReferencesCTSNet classification:4IntroductionJump to SectionIntroductionRobert M. Sade, MDProShu S. Lin, MD, PhD, and Lauren Rich, RN, BSNWhy Not Allow Death Row Inmates To Donate?Why Prohibit Prisoner Donation?Practical barriersSmall number of potential organ donorsQuality of donorDifficulties from method of executionRespecting the dead donor ruleEthical or moral concernsCoercion is inevitable in donation by death row inmatesOrgan donation by death row inmates undermines moral justification of capital punishmentOpinion PollsSummaryConJay D. Pal, MD, PhDLegal IssuesMoral or Ethical IssuesLogistical IssuesConclusionsConcluding RemarksRobert M. Sade, MDReferencesRobert M. Sade, MDJump to SectionIntroductionRobert M. Sade, MDProShu S. Lin, MD, PhD, and Lauren Rich, RN, BSNWhy Not Allow Death Row Inmates To Donate?Why Prohibit Prisoner Donation?Practical barriersSmall number of potential organ donorsQuality of donorDifficulties from method of executionRespecting the dead donor ruleEthical or moral concernsCoercion is inevitable in donation by death row inmatesOrgan donation by death row inmates undermines moral justification of capital punishmentOpinion PollsSummaryConJay D. Pal, MD, PhDLegal IssuesMoral or Ethical IssuesLogistical IssuesConclusionsConcluding RemarksRobert M. Sade, MDReferencesTen years ago, Christian Longo had been deeply enmeshed in a career of minor crimes and crushing financial burdens that had led to bankruptcy. He saw only one way out: relieving his family, his wife Mary Jane and their three children, of their dependency on him. He strangled Mary Jane and 2-year old daughter Madison, put them into suitcases and threw them into Yaquina Bay in Newport, Oregon. He stuffed his 3-year old daughter Sadie and 4-year old son Zachery into pillowcases, weighted them down with rocks, and threw them, still alive, into a nearby pond where they drowned.His crime was discovered when Zachery's body floated to the surface of the pond. He was placed on the FBI's 10 most wanted list, was found 2 years later living with his girlfriend in Cancun, Mexico, and was arrested, brought back to Oregon, put on trial, found guilty on four counts of murder, and sentenced to death.In March 2011, Longo wrote an editorial that was published in the New York Times: “Giving life after death row [