Bronx Wife-Killer Gets Liver Ahead of Thousands of New Yorkers

Johnny Concepcion confessed to stabbing his wife to death on July 5. He then took rat poison in an attempt to commit suicide, which damaged his liver.

This week, Concepcion was chosen over 1,805 New York City residents in need of a liver for a liver transplant. Fifty New York City residents have died this year waiting on a liver.

See David Goodhue, Confessed Killer Gets Liver Transplant Over Thousands of Candidates, All Headline News, July 27, 2010.