Ohio rejects death row inmate's organ donation request

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Ohio rejects death row inmate's organ donation request

By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Ohio rejected a request from a death row inmate to donate a kidney to his mother, saying there was not enough time for transplant surgery ahead of the execution. Ronald Phillips, 40, convicted of the rape and murder of a 3-year-old girl, had his execution postponed by Governor John Kasich to July 2 from November to see if the inmate could make the donation of organs, including a kidney to his mother, who Phillips said suffers from kidney disease. The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction said on Friday it gave Phillips a March 23, 2014, deadline to undergo the kidney transplant, or any other transplant, to family members. "It appears certain Mr. Phillips will not be undergoing any organ donations and transplantation surgery on or before March 23, 2014," the department said in a letter to Phillip's lawyer, adding the execution would go on as scheduled.

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