Chinese authorities launch a national donation scheme, as death-row figures are revealed

Two-thirds of organ donors in China are executed prisoners, state media reported today, as health officials launched a national donation system.
The authorities have previously acknowledged that corneas, kidneys and other body parts from criminals have been transplanted. But the new figure offers a startling [...]

Lawyers for a Texas judge accused of denying a death-row inmate a late appeal are asking a judge to find no merit to the misconduct charges. more …

A Texas judge on trial for closing her court despite knowing that a death-row inmate’s final appeal was running late testified Tuesday that denying a request to stay open was no judicial ruling on her part. “I did not believe I was making a decision,” said…

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Judge Sharon Keller has taken the stand in her ethics trial over whether she denied a death-row inmate’s chance at a last appeal before being executed. She quickly stumped prosecutors by saying she did not remember making a comment about a court clerk not…

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