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Totally, but as i have said in other debates, give them a choice between that or to be killed. |
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I like this one and think yes.They should,we could save some tax dollar's this way! |
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A friend of mine thinks that all death row prisoners should have “OD” tattooed on their
foreheads for “organ donor,” and that they should be automatically stripped of their
transplantable organs after execution.
As a transplant patient, I can see some validity in this as the need for donated tissue far
outstrips the supply. In some countries, doctors are required to discuss organ transplantation with
aggrieved families of terminal patients, and if no one is there to speak for you at your death, your
tissue is automatically harvested.
Although many death row inmates are found to be innocent after their execution, and most receive
last-minute reprieves (at least in the U.S.), using them, instead of animals, for medical
experiments is patently unethical.
However, given my personal experience, I certainly believe that the tissue of the condemned should
be automatically harvested as part of “paying their debt to society.” |
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Well I think they should be used for animal testing depending upon the crime that person committed
like raping a child, murder a child or torture an innocent person. Then I would say that a rat is
worth more than a person of that kind. |
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Yeh. Why not? Animal cruelty needs to stop. People will also use this as just another thing to keep
them out of prison... Who wants to tested on? |
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I think that would be a good way to stop animal crulity. If they are on death row there is no reason
why they can't be used for a good cause like scientific study instead of waiting to rot in jail. For
the prisoners on life sentences, same. I think that's a really good idea and I really think that it
makes sense and was a topic well thought out. |
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Silly idea. Besides, no one would get away with it. It's called 'Cruel and unusual Punishment' |
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That would be cruel. Every human being has rights, no matter what they did. It would be the same as
torture. |
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This would be completely unethical because it would fall under cruel and unusual punish me and the
only way it would be allowed is if all prisoners where treated the same meaning even if they did not
fit the profile of the experiment or if they had a lesser crime they would still be open for
experimentation witch would defeat the purpose of the proposed in the first place |
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Not only are these criminals human, those who convicted them of their crimes are human too. And as
such, they are liable to make mistakes. There are many people who were given the life sentence and
yet years later, were proven innocent. While the chances are slim, we still cannot take the risk of
hurting innocent people any more than they already have been by being put into prison under false
charges. |
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NO! Humans lives are worth more, even if they are criminals, than an animals! |
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To be honest, i don't think this is right at all. Everyone has basic human rights and this would be
taking those away from the prisoners even though they do not deserve them.
This would be inhumane and impractical |
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The only problem i have with this debate is yes animals aren't humans, they don't have the same
affects as what we do to testing.
But the problem i have is what if the prisoner was convicted wrongfully and he/she didn't actually
commit the crime?
A bit like the green mile.......... |
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The last time that a regime in the western world treated humans like guinea pigs and performed tests
on them against their will was in the Third Reich. Performing tests on humans without their full
consent is completely unethical and a violation of basic individual rights.
We shouldn't forget that even the most heinous criminals are human beings and even those on death
row in US prisons have certain very basic inalienable rights. If we apply the logic used to explain
this debate, then one could also argue that it is pointless to feed prisoners, since they are a
menace to society, and there is no need to keep them alive.
Experimenting on humans against their will opens up a real Pandora's Box and leads me to wonder
where such a policy could lead to, especially if society extends these practices to all those who
are deemed to be a hindrance in any way. |
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I think that would come under the category of cruel and unusual punishment. They're still human
beings and their humanity should be respected even if the decision to execute them is taken.
In any case, this would not be a practical replacement for experiments on animals. There simply
aren't enough prisoners who are condemned to death around the world to provide for all the
experiments that need to be done. And most developed countries - including all of those in Europe -
have abolished the death penalty anyway. So should the developed world import condemned prisoners
from places like China and Saudi Arabia? Why would their governments agree to it? Would we pay them?
If so, don't you think it could get a bit dodgy, us paying undemocratic governments for people that
we could put to death? After all, they would then have a financial incentive to sentence people to
death, so they could export them to us. It would be like a resumption of the slave trade. |
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You think a person should be experimented on rather than an animal? Wow. I agree that there might be
some in prison for a life sentence that I wouldn't have over for dinner, but using them instead of
rats. Come on. |
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16 Feb 2008 14:43
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