US man who received pig heart has a criminal record
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The US man who had recently received a successful transplant of a 'porcine' heart is in the news again. David Bennett, 57, who received a successful transplant of a genetically-modified pig heart, is said to have a criminal record. According to The New York Times, the Maryland resident had once stabbed a man seven times and left him paralysed. Bennett was convicted of stabbing Edward Shumaker in 1988 and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.