Harvesting organs from death row inmates and terrorists
Hello Rabbi,
Recently, a post by Avri Gilad was published suggesting harvesting the organs of terrorists for transplants as a deterrent (as every terrorist knew that his death would save Jewish lives). I wanted to ask in general whether it is appropriate for a state to use the organs of those sentenced to death in general, and in particular for terrorists? I thought that perhaps there is a problem here that people will think that the state is rushing to sentence to death in order to use the organs of the condemned, or perhaps the state will try less to prevent crimes that lead to the death penalty because the result will result in more lives anyway. It also reminded me of the verse "And if an ox gores a man or a woman, and he dies, the ox shall be stoned and not eaten of its flesh," which perhaps has something to do with distancing oneself from evil and destroying its memory. Even in the world, it is common to see such a practice as a practice of dark regimes (like China, for example, and even they stopped this practice in 2015).
Best regards,
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