A Texas inmate who is established to be set to demise in significantly less than two months asked that his execution be delayed in order to donate a kidney.

Ramiro Gonzales is scheduled to receive a deadly injection on July 13 just after fatally taking pictures 18-year-outdated Bridget Townsend, a southwest Texas girl whose continues to be had been uncovered practically two years just after she vanished in 2001.

In a letter sent Wednesday, Gonzales’ legal professionals, Thea Posel and Raoul Schonemann, requested Republican Gov. Greg Abbott to grant a 30-day reprieve for the inmate to be deemed a residing donor "to someone who is in urgent need of a kidney transplant."

His lawyers have built a separate ask for to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles for a 180-working day reprieve connected to the kidney donation.

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In their ask for to Abbott, Gonzales’ lawyers provided a letter from Cantor Michael Zoosman, an ordained Jewish clergyman from Maryland who has been corresponding with Gonzales.

"There has been no question in my thoughts that Ramiro’s need to be an altruistic kidney donor is not motivated by a very last-moment endeavor to halt or hold off his execution. I will go to my grave believing in my coronary heart that this is a thing that Ramiro wishes to do to assist make his soul appropriate with his God," Zoosman wrote.

This image offered by the Texas Office of Legal Justice exhibits Texas death row inmate Ramiro Gonzales, who is established to be put to demise in significantly less than two 7 days. Gonzales has requested that his execution be quickly delayed so he can donate a kidney.  ((Texas Office of Prison Justice by way of WHD))

Gonzales’ lawyers say he’s been identified to be an "outstanding prospect" for donation right after currently being evaluated by the transplant crew at the University of Texas Clinical Branch in Galveston. The analysis located Gonzales has a exceptional blood variety, meaning his donation could profit somebody who may well have problems getting a match.

"Almost all that remains is the surgery to remove Ramiro’s kidney. UTMB has confirmed that the course of action could be finished within a month," Posel and Schonemann wrote to Abbott.

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Texas Section of Legal Justice insurance policies let inmates to make organ and tissue donations. Agency spokeswoman Amanda Hernandez claimed Gonzales was deemed ineligible right after building a ask for to be a donor previously this 12 months. She did not give a purpose, but Gonzales’ legal professionals mentioned in their letter that the agency objected due to the fact of the pending execution date.

Abbott’s office did not straight away reply to an e-mail looking for remark.

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles is established to vote July 11 on Gonzales’ request to that company.

The U.S flag and the Texas Point out flag fly about the Texas Condition Capitol as the point out senate debates the #SB6 bathroom monthly bill in Austin, Texas, U.S., March 14, 2017.  (REUTERS/Brian Snyder)

Gonzales’ attorneys have designed a individual request asking the board to commute his death sentence to a lesser penalty.

They also asked that his execution not proceed if his non secular adviser isn’t authorized to the two hold his hand and place another hand on his heart during his execution. A two-working day federal demo on this ask for was established to start off Tuesday in Houston.

Gonzales’ request to delay his execution for an organ donation is exceptional among loss of life row inmates in the U.S., Robert Dunham, govt director of the Death Penalty Data Heart, said Friday.

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In 1995, condemned murderer Steven Shelton in Delaware donated a kidney to his mom.

In 2013, Ronald Phillips’ execution in Ohio was delayed so his ask for to donate a kidney to his mom could be reviewed. Phillips’ ask for was later denied, and he was executed in 2017.

"Skeptics will imagine this is simply an endeavor to delay the execution. But if that were being the circumstance, I assume you’d be viewing lots of requests," stated Dunham, whose group usually takes no position on funds punishment but has criticized the way states have out executions. "The historical past of executions in the United States reveals that individuals never make delivers of organ donations for the objective of delaying an execution that will nevertheless take put."

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In a report, the United Network for Organ Sharing, a nonprofit that serves as the nation’s transplant method below agreement with the federal federal government, stated various ethical issues about organ donations from condemned prisoners. They consist of regardless of whether this sort of donations could be tied to prisoners acquiring preferential cure or that these types of organs could be morally compromised since of their ties to the loss of life penalty.