Sentences with phrase «executed prisoners»

The number of executions and the correct figures for resulting transplantation procedures can not be confirmed precisely, but the British Transplantation Society (BTS), in April 2006, claimed that China harvested the organs of thousands of executed prisoners without their consent every year to sell for transplants.

arguments that legalisation of such practices will inevitably result in the exploitation by the rich (recipients) of the poor (donors) to their profound disadvantage, qualms about the ethically suspect source of the organs to be transplanted, namely, as here, from executed prisoners; and quaint and idealistic, but arguably antiquated notions that donations are always made altruistically.

After getting no reply to subsequent request for further evidence on the origin of the organs, Mondelli says, the journal asked the authors» institution for an official document, by 3 February, confirming that organs were not sourced from executed prisoners.

For years, Chinese officials have come under fire for allegedly allowing the use of organs from executed prisoners for transplants, including for foreigners coming to the country for so - called medical tourism.

A journal has decided to retract a 2016 study because of concerns that its data on the safety of liver transplantation involved organs sourced from executed prisoners in China.

They could have gone elsewhere: to Pakistan, where entire villages are populated by men who have been stripped of a kidney; to China, where kidney harvesting from executed prisoners has supported a booming transplant industry; or to the Philippines, where transplant tourism flourished until May 2008, when the government banned the trade.

Authors of liver transplant study don't satisfy journal editor that organs were not from executed prisoners

Commercial use of executed prisoners might seem scandalous, but in China it is not illegal.

She added that China also harvests organs for transplant from executed prisoners, but is working to stop the practice.

Late in the book, the state of Arizona executes a prisoner by poison gas, its first execution in six years.

So anyone who sits on jury and condemns someone to death, the judge that imposes the sentence, the guards working in the jail and anyone else who is involved in executing prisoners is going to hell?

It is the standard for most of the US states that execute prisoners by lethal injection.

Desperate, H. Q. became a transplant tourist, securing a liver — probably from an executed prisoner — in 2004.

Gradually, those images are replaced by real (and really brutal) images of jihadists cutting off hands, whipping dissenters, and executing prisoners in the streets, captured on grainy cellphone videos by citizen journalists.

Despite its beauty, this plant is dangerous to have around your pets or children due to the serious side effects from the toxins, one of which was used by Hitler as a gas to execute prisoners in the gas chambers.

This is an interesting take on the question, which raises the much more likely prospect of a country such as France denying entry to the governor of, say, Texas, who is arguably more culpable in the death of an executed prisoner, having signed the death warrant.

On that day, Judge Keller let her personal bias in favor of the death penalty trample the right of now - executed prisoner Michael Richard to access the courts and have due process.

Not exact matches

The chair, in service from 1924 through 1964, was used to execute 361 prisoners.

The complex is home to the death chamber where all three prisoners executed by the federal government since 1988 have died by lethal injection, including Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

If the sentence is carried out, he would join a group of just three federal prisoners executed since 1988, when capital punishment by the U.S. government was reinstated.

He was imprisoned after being found as a conspirator against Hitler's regime and led to the gallows to be executed in early April 1945, just months before the prisoners would be freed by the Allies.

How can we say it's unfair for Iran to execute anyone a mere week after the Supreme Court wouldn't even hear an appeal for a death row prisoner who might have been unjustly convicted?

A new video purports to show ISIS using a young boy to execute a 19 - year - old the group was holding prisoner.

I will execute 100 prisoners.

prisoner rather than executing them.

The organisation identified the prisoners executed on the order of Governor Godwin Obaseki as Ogbomoro Omoregie, Apostle Igene and Mark Omosowhota.

A spokeswoman for Lundbeck, Sally Young, seemed horrified on Wednesday that her company's product had almost surely been used as part of the process to execute three prisoners in Oklahoma.

In this case, researchers fed the system information about 1,000 death row prisoners, including their sex, age, race, highest year of school completed, the state in which they were incarcerated, and whether they were ultimately executed or spared.

Some prisoners may even have been executed due to false eyewitness testimony.

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Despite its gruesome scenes of hundreds of Chinese prisoners of war being lined up and executed and its ostentatious shots of severed heads, the movie is less than indelible.

We also see a body hanging from a construction crane in the streets of Tehran, some still images of torture in the movie's opening moments and a firing squad where prisoners are subjected to the psychological torment of believing they will be executed.

Still, subjects are free, which marks them luckier than the rebels in the other 12 districts who are executed whenever and wherever found thanks to the take - no - prisoners war policy of President Snow (Donald Sutherland).

«They executed more than 3,000 political prisoners,» Iranian journalist Behdad Bordbar tells NPR's Peter Kenyon.

But she finds her art blossoming when she turns to her mother's recipes and starts cooking last meals for the prisoners about to be executed at the local prison.

As rioting gulag prisoners prepare to execute Sinyavksy, the camp commander, he pleads that he should be spared because in addition to the terrible things he has done while running the gulag, he has also tried help when he could.

It is rumored that if these troops were captured they would be executed rather than taken prisoner due to the graphic nature of their victims» death.

It's that authority which allows you to command prisoners to be executed, blackmail merchants, and pretty much betray everyone around you.

While surrendering troops in the west could reasonably expect safe treatment, prisoners on the Ostfront were regularly executed, and those not killed outright were deported to gulags and konzentrationslager for years of abuse.

Alongside Rebecca is Billy Coen, an ex-military prisoner who was on his way to be executed before the events of the game.

Learning that Stahl plans to publicly execute Narville, Tomas and Rico don Helghast uniforms and rescue him and his fellow prisoners.

Durant wrote, «We now know that one in 100 U.S. citizens are in jail and one in nine African American men are in prison... We know that innocent people have been executed and that there are many potentially innocent prisoners sitting on death row today.

Although the concept of a «last meal» for death row prisoners who are about to be executed is under attack for being wasteful and unnecessary in places such as Texas and Florida, the practice still seems to be quite common in most jurisdictions.

The presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals is on trial for misconduct for refusing to hear a last - minute appeal from a death row prisoner scheduled to be executed that night.

Wife of Executed Death Row Prisoner Sues Judge (with video, including shots of sharonkiller.com website)

We end in Texas, where the presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals is on trial for misconduct for refusing to hear a last - minute appeal from a death row prisoner scheduled to be executed that night.

The recent revelations that executed Chinese prisoner's organs are being used for transplantation purposes, and bought by rich recipients, raises fundamental issues about the legality and ethics of creating a market in buying and selling organs.

It reminds me of the things they used to put on prisoners head when they executed them.