The victims of crimes absolutely should receive much empathy and compassion. They should receive free and unencumbered medical (including mental health), legal, and financial support to help them reconstruct themselves. Paid for by the community. They should be guaranteed safety, even more than the rest of the population.
That is compassion. Harvesting their aggressor's heart and brain for teaching purpose, on the other hand, is not.
This is not about compassion for any criminals. They're dead anyways. This is about the families of the deceased who find that someone has been cutting away at their dead relative.
Examples?
[0] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.27.21262033v...
- Temporary civil death limitation on freedoms and rights for conviction of a crime
- Temporary punitive treatment including substandard healthcare, poor sanitation, , lack of climate control, lousy food, solitary confinement, unpaid forced labor, and lack of rehabilitation services.
- Permanent civil death and punitive discrimination in housing, voting, and job applications for the individual (if they were to serve their time and leave alive).
- Lack of professional minimal humanity shown towards the dead inmates' family who aren't necessarily guilty by association.
Your comment made me curious about Brandon Dotson's crime. I can't find a lot of info for it, I haven't started delving into legal databases, but I was able to gather several sources that state Brandon Dotson was sentenced to 99 years for a Class C felony (Burglary) + a parole violation. There might not even be other people involved in the crime he was convicted for. Sentencing someone to life in prison for burglary, even with a parole violation, seems needlessly cruel.
Alabama's sentencing guidelines for a Class C felony are between 366 days and 10 years. The man served 19 years (and is now dead).
Ah yeah. I'd like a rapist to be called a criminal. For victims, you know.
It's also as simple as that.
Now should a rapist's schlong be used for scientific experiment? I mean... I'd joke that at least we'd be sure he wouldn't use it to do mischief anymore but I understand it's a bit harsh. It's not what we're talking about here: it's about harvesting organs from dead people.
But the point would be better made if some compassion was shown towards the victims instead of only ever showing compassion to the criminals.
FWIW there are western countries where the corpse of any dead human being can be used for scientific experimentation, unless specified otherwise.
What about an article about that instead of an article lacking any compassion towards rape victims and parents of murdered kids?