Executive Director Richard Dieter of The Death Penalty Information Center
Courtesy of The Death Penalty Information Center
Some death row organ donations may be ethical, others not. A death penalty expert says it depends on the timing, and the organ
Dieter - “Well what certainly makes this unusual is the stay was granted less than 24 hours before the execution. There have been a couple of death row inmates that have been allowed to donate an organ but this really came close to removing that possibility because this was not a case of donating an organ during the execution. Rather it’s a kidney from which a person can do fine or well enough without one kidney so it puts him back in a prison context instead of an execution context and allows time for consideration of this issue. This is really close”
Ingles - “So is there a consensus in these kinds of cases? Is organ donation possible?”
Dieter - “Well it is possible. There’s certainly a consensus, almost an unanonymity, that vital organs and organs to be donated during execution, that would be forbidden. You can’t give consent or use a human life or involve doctors during an execution. There are just too many questions with ethics and voluntariness to allow that. But for a prisoner, for the moment consider them not on death row, to give blood or even work in the community, these are things that we do allow some interaction and not all rights are removed just because you are in prison.
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