Chinese surgeons execute death row inmates by removing organs for illegal transplants, says study

According to the dead donor rule, organ procurement must not commence until the donor is both dead and formally pronounced so, and procurement of organs must not cause the death of the donor 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 American Journal of Transplantation . The authors of the study, Australian PhD scholar Matthew Robertson and Dr Jacob Lavee, an Israeli cardiac transplant surgeon, identified 71 Chinese medical journal publications dated between 1980 and 2015 describing…