] UMATILLA, Oregon (Reuters) -- Horacio Alberto
] Reyes-Camarena, a convicted murderer with failing
] kidneys, is presenting Oregon officials with a tough
] choice -- how best to keep him alive until they can
] execute him.
]
] The cash-strapped state, struggling to provide basic
] education and health care to its citizens, pays $120,000
] a year to clean Reyes-Camarena's blood with a dialysis
] machine at Umatilla State Prison. That treatment could
] continue for a decade as he appeals his death sentence in
] the 1996 murder of an 18-year-old woman.
]
] After Reyes-Camarena's prison doctor last month concluded
] he was a good candidate for a transplant, state officials
] may consider giving him a priceless donated kidney. The
] $100,000 operation could save the state money but would
] deprive someone outside prison of a life-giving organ.

This is absolutely absurd!!!! More later, too angry to make coherent arguments.

Oregon debates kidney transplant for death row inmate