65% of China's Organ Donations From Death Row Prisoners

About 1.5 million people in China need transplants, but only about 10,000 operations are performed annually, according to the health ministry.

The scarcity of available organs has led to a thriving black market in trafficked organs, and in an effort to stop this the government passed a law in 2007 banning trafficking as well as the donation of organs to unrelated recipients.

But in practice, illegal transplants - some from living donors - are still frequently reported by the media and the Ministry of Health.

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As I've often stated, I do NOT support the death penalty. NO government has the right to take any person's life, no matter how much we may dislike that person or what crimes they may have committed. There is also the inconsistencies in how the death penalty is applied to various racial groups, such as in the United States where the majority of those on death row are blacks. And finally there is the always present and very real possibility that the condemned person is actually innocent.