China admits death row organ use

   

 China admits death row organ use  

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8222732.stm

 

According to the China Daily newspaper, executed prisoners currently provide two-thirds of all transplant organs

 

 

 Larry Niven's "Jigsaw Man" is science fiction story about a fugitive from justice, running from the police.  He's wanted for a crime -- he doesn't say what it is -- but if he's convicted of that crime, he faces the Death Penalty. He will be executed and his organs will be harvested. (hence the title "Jigsaw" Man)

 

In the course of his escape, he commits a large number of other crimes, including the murder of one of his persuers.

 

He's caught and brought to trial.  The prosecution doesn't even bother to bring up the murder charge. They know they can easily convict him on the original charge...  Jay Walking.

 

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The author comments that in the future, convicts on death row will repay their debt to society by having their organs harvested, so the execution results a benefit to society.  However, when demand increases for a scarce commodity (human organs), then lesser crimes will carry the death penalty.

 

Perhaps even Jay Walking.

 

 

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