Looks like the ethics debate on this has now really begun in earnest.
I do NOT agree that convicts should NOT be allowed to donate. I have no problem with the REDEMPTION status donation gives them. As long as their bloodstream is AIDS-free and hepatitis-free, they should be able to donate their organs. Redemption for murder is a good thing.
As far as mode of execution, the donate-able organs should be given priority. So ordinary major surgery, and snip snip snip, should be the best way to do it.
First the kidneys come out, then the liver comes out, then the heart-lung, and finally the cornea's. Guaranteed that the convict won't wake up from that procedure.
Parts is parts.
There is a well known expression in German applicable to this.
"Das geht nicht." Means THAT WON'T WORK.
Organs die quickly when suffocated from absence of circulation of blood even for a very short while.
Kill the circulation and you kill the organ.
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