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  2. Organ donation in the United States prison population

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    Organ donation has the potential to greatly improve quality of life as well as prevent death in patients with end-stage organ failure. There is an endemic shortage of organ donors within the United States, resulting in an immediate and persistent need for additional, suitable organ donors. Death row inmates are a possible source of additional ...

  3. Ethical concerns over prison organ donation bill - AOL

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    The two Democratic state legislators who sponsored the bill say it would help expand the pool of organ donation. Nearly every 10 minutes, another person is added to the transplant list. Ethical ...

  4. Death Row inmate asks for donations - AOL

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    Donation requests come in all forms, but here's one you probably won't want to contribute to -- California Death Row inmate Scott Peterson has a Web site asking people to give money for his appeal ...

  5. What people get wrong about organ donation and how it ... - AOL

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    Most people know that organ donations save lives and, in fact, more than 90 percent of Americans support organ donation. But only about 50 percent of U.S. adults are actually registered organ and ...

  6. Volunteer (capital punishment) - Wikipedia

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    Many inmates experience a "death row phenomemon" as a response of a capital punishment sentence, in which traumatic effects are experienced from being placed in death row custody due to the conditions or the impending death sentence. A consequence of the syndrome is that inmates’ changes in health and behavior turn in the direction of ...

  7. List of death row inmates in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Mosley, who murdered Back, was sentenced to life in prison. Myers became the youngest inmate on death row in Ohio at the time of his sentence. Donna Roberts: Had her ex-husband killed in order to collect his life insurance. 21 years, 220 days [82] Roberts is the only female death row inmate in Ohio. William Kessler Sapp

  8. Death row inmate makes unusual request before his execution - AOL

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    Donnie Johnson, 68, declined to spend the $20 death row inmates at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution can use for their last meal and opted to have what the general prison population ate, the ...

  9. United Network for Organ Sharing - Wikipedia

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    The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) is a non-profit scientific and educational organization that administers the only Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) in the United States, established (42 U.S.C. § 274) by the U.S. Congress in 1984 by Gene A. Pierce, founder of United Network for Organ Sharing.