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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Gregory Scott
Johnson (February 18, 1965 - May 25, 2005 at the Indiana State Prison in
Michigan City, Indiana) was legally executed for beating and stomping
82-year-old Ruby Hutslar to death in 1985. He set her house on fire in
an attempt to conceal his crime. Johnson sought a reprieve, asserting
that he wanted to donate a portion of his liver to his ailing sister,
Deborah Otis, who was suffering from non-alcoholic cirrhosis of the
liver and was in need of a transplant. His reprieve was denied because
most doctors believe that it is unethical to harvest organs after death
by lethal injection, and because Johnson himself was not a suitable
donor. Another possibility - though not in Indiana, where all organ
recipients (except kidney recipients) are chosen by law according to
their places on a waiting list, on which list Johnson's sister does not
appear - would have been a living partial organ donation prior to
execution.