Medical tests are common. Everyone knows its importance. The fact is that not everyone knows how many experiments are being conducted. For people who don't know, animals are abused and mistreated every day for the sake of medical research. Even though animal research has played a key role in the advancement of medicine, it is still inhumane, because only 6% of animals are used for medical tests. (About My Planet) Prisoners should be used instead of animals for the advancement of medical history. There have been numerous cases and stories where prisoners have been abused through medical research, which the reader will realize as they read this article. All these incidents with prisoners are not as graphic or inhumane as animal testing. Animal testing is cruel, they have no choice, whereas prisoners would have a choice. Prisoners on death row should be able to volunteer for medical tests and scientific research, rather than animals who have no choice. The best example is the generally accepted principle that when a person commits murder, he loses all rights to such rights. These people are sentenced to different levels of punishment according to the law. (Prisoners) The punishment to qualify for research would be defined for those sentenced to life without parole or those on death row. The research that would be conducted on prisoners would only be aimed at developing vaccines and treatments for diseases that require no other medical treatment. Getting prisoners to volunteer for experimental treatments can shorten the time for animal testing and start on human subjects sooner. , decreasing the total time to FDA approval. Death penalty tr...... middle of document ......-medical-testing-humans-revealed#.U0KtNjhOVdg>."Prisoners should be used for medical experiments without consent."Debate. Nature publishing group, 8 February 2012. Web. 7 April 2014. Walter, Matteo. "Human experiments". Nature.com. Nature Publishing Group, 8 February 2012. Web. 7 April 2014. .Wiegand, Timoteo. "Captive subjects." Toxicology in the news. Journal of Medical Toxicology, March 1, 2007.Web. April 7, 2014. “World Prison Populations.” BBC News. BBC, 20 June 2005. Web. 20 April. 2014..