Should inmates on death row have the option to repent by becoming guinea pigs in medical research tests?

Such as testing Cancer treatments,AIDS research ect to give back to society in a positive way instead of making license plates.

hey cam1princess, how about they donate themselves to the transplant doctors and give their parts all away. You could have eye transplants, heart transplants, liver, and so on. Help a lot of people to have good lives again. How about skin transplants for burn victims. Sure, Why not...

Or we could give all inmates the option of participating in such research (they'd still be in jail, but we could give them extra pudding rations or something).

At least until their death sentence is carried out.

no

Sure why not, it would be a way for them to repey their debt to society instead of escaping it through death. Which in death they arent really escaping they still have to meet the maker.

They wouldn't be much use unless they had cancer or AIDS...

Everyone on death row repents. They do not want to die, sorta like their victims did not want to die.

No Yes No Yes No. Cant make up my mind. Was experimented on.

It should be allowed but it should be up to the individual. Furthermore, society should be willing to assist such a volunteer should something go wrong or something unforseen should occur. Imprisoned people should not be subject to wild or highly speculative experiments such as experiment to see the effect of a man giving birth. However, immates with AIDs might want to participate in drug experiments that will lead to a cure.

Keep in mind that the primary obligation concerning one sentenced to death is to carry out the penalty declared by the court. Eventually, the sentence must be carried out unless a judge approves the alternate means.

The use of prisoners for medical experiments, however, might be construed as "cruel and unusual punishment" which is disallowed by the Constitution. Even if the prisoners were "willing", it could be argued that they were coerced to participate in the medical experiments since they were threatened by death otherwise. You could never truly get a "voluntary" participant. Upon appeal after being re-sentenced to the "alternate" punishment, the new punishment could easily be ruled unconstitutional. From there, they could conceivably be set free entirely based on consitiutional violations.

So no, from a legal perspective, I don't think we could offer these type of alternate "punishments" to those on death row. It could backfire and set them free altogether.