Charles Shea's Blog - Posts Tagged "execution"
Executions With A Purpose
Here’s an idea that I promote in all of my novels:
When the guilty are sentenced to death for wrongs committed against society, I believe they should be required to give something back to society.
I think all the transplantable organs from criminals that are sentenced to death should be harvested instead of frying them in the electric chair or poisoning them with gas or lethal injections. Last year twenty three people across the country were executed; that’s a lot of wasted hearts, lungs, livers, kidneys, and eyes.
A special team of volunteer surgeons for each state that still has the death penalty could be put together. Another option would be to have just one team of surgeons that would travel the country and harvest the organs of the condemned.
This approach would help to make the execution of an innocent person a little easier to bear too. Something positive would come from such a horrendous mistake.
When the guilty are sentenced to death for wrongs committed against society, I believe they should be required to give something back to society.
I think all the transplantable organs from criminals that are sentenced to death should be harvested instead of frying them in the electric chair or poisoning them with gas or lethal injections. Last year twenty three people across the country were executed; that’s a lot of wasted hearts, lungs, livers, kidneys, and eyes.
A special team of volunteer surgeons for each state that still has the death penalty could be put together. Another option would be to have just one team of surgeons that would travel the country and harvest the organs of the condemned.
This approach would help to make the execution of an innocent person a little easier to bear too. Something positive would come from such a horrendous mistake.
