Dead Alabama prisoner’s body returned without a heart, family says

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Dead Alabama prisoner’s body returned without a heart, family says
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There's zero chance this guy's heart was transplanted. Heart donations require minimal warm ischemic time. No way they found him dead and decided to steal his heart, and if they forcibly removed his heart for transplant, the surgical signs would make that obvious.

China gets away with it because it's a state sanctioned program. The evidence is destroyed and families get back ashes.

It's far more likely they did an autopsy and then lost or kept the heart for some other reason. Maybe he was stabbed in the heart and they want to cover it up. If I had to guess, I'd say they were just grossly negligent and lost it. They returned the body in a state of decomposition. That's egregious enough without imagining a shady cabal of prison heart transplant doctors.

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