The Nation - News from Oct. 6, 1985
A Florida medical examiner’s decision to give the brains of executed prisoners to University of Florida researchers sparked an investigation by state authorities. Lori Naslund of the medical examiner’s office said the prisoners’ families had not given permission, as state law requires in all organ donations. She said Christiana Leonard, a university researcher, several years ago began obtaining the brains from the medical examiner, William Hamilton.
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