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At least 71 death row inmates in China had their vital organs removed, to be used for transplants, before they were officially declared dead, according to a study published in the Am erican Journal of Transplantation . “We found that the physicians became the executioners on behalf of the state, and that the method of execution was heart removal,” an author of the study, Matthew P. Robertson, said in a statement to Al Jazeera . For decades, per the study, Chinese surgeons have broken a crucial transplant donor rule: Don’t remove organs from a live body. The authors of the...
