A Texas inmate, who is scheduled for execution next week, has requested a 30-day reprieve so he can donate a kidney.
Ramiro Gonzales, 39, is set to die by lethal injection on July 13 for fatally shooting 18-year-old Bridget Townsend, a Southwest Texas woman whose remains were found almost 2 years after she vanished in 2001, accordingGonzales’ lawyers submitted a formal request to Gov. Greg Abbott last week to postpone the execution so the inmate could be a living donor to “someone who is in urgent need of a kidney transplant.
In the request to Abbott, the attorneys included a letter from Cantor Michael Zoosman, an ordained Jewish clergyman from Maryland who has corresponded with Gonzales since January 2021, according“There has been no doubt in my mind that Ramiro’s desire to be an altruistic kidney donor is not motivated by a last-minute attempt to stop or delay his execution,” Zoosman wrote.
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