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I would argue that it wouldn't do much to conviction because the organs used from the current people would satisfy a lot of the need. Yes, it may increase unfai

• vidarh 10y ago
  28 people were executed in the US in 2015. Thousands of organs are transplanted every year. The only way death penalty would make a dent would be to dramatically increase it. But it wouldn't need to dramatically increase it to cause a massive percentage-wise increase in innocent people convicted.
  • helthanatos 10y ago
    But there are over 600 on death row. Each person can give 15-25 useful organs. If they're in prison, it's likely that quite a few organs aren't viable for transplant, but at least it's a start. I think the amount of people saved would far outnumber the wrongful convictions. The justice system would probably have to be revamped in order for this to work, yes, but why do you think so many more innocent would be convicted?
    • vidarh 10y ago
      You could deplete the entire supply in one year. Then what? The reason there are so many on death row in the US today is that so many states have had issues with actually carrying out the executions - there are not 600 news capital convictions each year, so your supply would replenish at a much slower rate. In other words unless you massively reduce the threshold at which you will convict, it will not provide much of a benefit. And given that we know that innocents get convicted, even a small reduction in the threshold will disproportionally increase the number of innocents convicted. Want to solve the transplant issue? Instead of this, make people opt out istead of opt in to transplants.