by Katrina

Created on: February 19, 2008

Over 79,000 U.S. patients are currently waiting for an organ transplant; nearly 3,000 new patients are added to the waiting list each month.

Though controversial and done unethically in other countries, the use of organs of death row inmates may be one solution to save many lives.

There has been a network started called, The Donation Inmate Organ Network (DION).DION would have two routes for donation .A prisoner could donate their organ for transplant or for research, upon death. An inmate could pledge up to three organs upon death. They will have 60 days suspended from up to 180 days maximum .They can also pledge their entire body, for one year of a suspended time.

The inmate could also choose to be a "local living banker"(llb), a living donor of one kidney, part of the pancreas, a lung, or the liver, a llb would receive 7 years of reduced time.

Thirty-six states have the death penalty .Since 1976, 1,194 executions have been carried out by the gas chamber, electric chair, and lethal injection.

The UNOS Ethics Committee has raised has raised a small number of many issues regarding organ donation from condemned prisoners .The Committee opposes any stragey or proposed statue regarding organ donation from condemn prisoners until all of the potential ethical concerns have been addressed.
A person on death row or next of kin has the right to refuse organ donation or any surgeries.
Unlike in China where they stand alone in the use of organs of executed prisoners for transplant surgery. China is profiting from the human organs, which has many organization calling them inhumane and unethical. Many of the prisoners are not on death row.
A Chinese government document explain the produres used in the extraction of the executed prisoners organs generates between 2,000 and 3,000 human organs sold per year out of an estimated 4,500 executed prisoners.1,200 induvuals were put to death in 1999.

People from all over the world are traveling to China to save their lives or a loved one and paying a huge price for the attempt. The estimated price for a human organ is $30,000.

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