Mississippi Gov "unethical" over jail release: surgeon

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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6BT3ZN20101230

Barbour agreed to free sisters Gladys and Jamie Scott, who have served 16 years of a double life sentence for an armed robbery in which nobody was hurt and $11 was stolen. The case has drawn national attention.

A condition of Gladys Scott's release is that she donate a kidney to her sister in an operation that should be performed urgently, Barbour said in a statement on Wednesday. She had agreed to be a donor for her sister, who requires dialysis.

Barbour, chairman of the Republican Governor's Association, is considering whether to run for president in 2012.

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1. Kick

nt.

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2. The linking of release from prison with major surgery/organ donation

is indeed a very troubling and bizarre precedent to set. I get that it's her sister and all that, but still.