The Hispanic Ramiro Gonzales, of 39 years, who is on death row, has requested the suspension of his execution scheduled for the next 13 July in order to donate a kidney.
According to the Texas prisoner’s legal representatives, your client wishes to delay the execution by lethal injection for one month so that it can be considered a living donor “for someone in urgent need of a kidney transplant.”
Furthermore, they asked the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles for a six-month suspension in connection with the requested kidney donation According to lawyers Thea Posel and Raoul Schonem, a transplant team from the University of Texas found that Gonzales is an excellent candidate for kidney donation due to his blood type, which has been classified as rare.
“Practically all that remains is the surgery to remove Ramiro’s kidney. UTMB has confirmed that the procedure could be completed in a month”, legal representatives wrote to Governor Greg Abbott.
In the letter sent to the Governor they included the statement of a Jewish cleric Cantor Michael Zoosman who has been in contact with the Hispanic: “I have no doubt that Ramiro’s desire to be an altruistic kidney donor is not motivated by a last-minute attempt to stop or delay his execution. I will go to my grave believing in my heart that this is something that Ramiro wants to do to help his soul be right with his God.”
This is not the first time that Gonzales has applied to be a organ donor, earlier this 2022 was denied the
Ramiro Gonzales was found guilty of sexually abusing and fatally shooting Bridget Townsend, of 18 years, when he was 18 years old.