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Death Row Inmate Wants To Give Back
By nwcn.com
Published: 03/11/2011

SALEM -- One of Oregon's most notorious killers wants to end appeals to his death sentence in order to donate his organs.

Christian Longo also wants the state to alter its lethal injection protocol to fulfill his wish.

Longo was convicted in 2003 of killing his wife and three children. Their bodies were found in 2001, left in Oregon coastal waterways.

Prosecutors at the time said Longo killed his family in order to live an uninhibited lifestyle. After the murders, he ran to the Mexican resort town of Tulum, where he enjoyed beach life, even wooing a German tourist.

Longo first brought up the subject of organ donation in December of 2009 and a recent essay in the New York Times has again raised the issue.

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