Doin' Right Before Doin' the Chair

An inmate on Indiana's death row has a sister who needs a liver transplant. The inmate wants to donate his. And now there's a scramble: to see if health insurance will cover it, to see if the governor will grant a temporary stay to allow the procedure, to determine how to get around Indiana law that requires lethal injection instead of the electric chair (lethal injection would ruin the liver). Link. Excerpt:

Doctors who examined [his sister] determined she has steatohepatitis, a type of non-alcoholic hepatitis found in diabetics. A liver transplant would be her best chance for survival, one doctor has told Michelle Kraus, Johnson's court-appointed attorney from Fort Wayne. And that chance would be even better if the donor was a sibling, like Johnson.