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Beijing Announces an End to Prisoner Organ Harvesting

China, long notorious for being the world’s most lavish state practitioner of the death penalty, has announced that it will put an end to the practice of harvesting the organs of executed prisoners by 2017.  China Daily reports: China has pledged to abolish the practice of taking transplant human organs from condemned prisoners within three to five years, a senior health official said Thursda