Op-Ed: Why Should They Die?

August 7, 2009

One of those arrested in July’s extraordinary New Jersey roundup of mayors, legislators and others for alleged money laundering and corruption was a Brooklyn man accused of trying to broker the sale of a human kidney for a transplant operation. The accused allegedly boasted that he had brokered many such sales. This brought on the usual outcries over the need to crack down–including leveling stiffer penalties–on the selling of human body parts and organs. (Forbes)