Ai Weiwei's Use Of The Death Penalty In China

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In China they use the death penalty for a way to create revenue. Human body parts are surprisingly very expensive. Ai Weiwei the author of the essay Heartless claims that a liver, kidney, or heart transplant can range up to 140,000 to 150,000 RMB and in US currency it is 2000 to 3000 dollars. The country makes a steady profit off of harvesting organs, and they are also the world's top executioner for giving the death penalty. Furthermore, human rights and dignity are stripped when the prisoner is on death row. Weiwei claims “An ambulance is parked where the executed can plainly see it, and as soon as the gun sounds the white angels lunge toward the still-warm corpse with organ transplant coolers in hand”(579). The victims do not have any

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