1.   For centuries, scientists have used executed criminals for study, the dissection considered further punishment beyond death.

2.   I am thinking of the fellow on The New Republic who wrote a nasty little piece about how snatching salable organs from executed criminals was really not that bad.

3.   The sharpness of lovingly, painstakingly crafted new swords was tested, by the way, on the corpses of executed criminals.

4.   BEIJING -- The Chinese government Wednesday vehemently denied that organs are harvested from executed criminals as portrayed in a documentary by the British Broadcasting Co.

5.   Human rights groups have reported organs being removed from executed criminals by doctors operating on the back of a truck at the execution ground.

6.   His Laogai Research Foundation in Milpitas, California, also monitors alleged trafficking in human organs from executed Chinese criminals.

7.   In Japan, names of executed criminals are not released, nor are executions announced beforehand.

8.   Last year, he secretly filmed a documentary that accused the Chinese government of selling organs from executed criminals.

9.   Officials deny they ever use organs from an executed criminal without their permission.

10.   Taiwanese patients can make arrangements to receive kidneys transplanted from executed criminals in China through an agent in southern Taiwan, a newspaper reported Wednesday.