ABSTRACT
Convicted murderer Joseph Jernigan transformed from Dead Man Walking to Dead Man Digitalized when he donated his body to science. In 1993, the Texas convict became the Visible Man, now on total display in books, on CD-ROMs, and through the World Wide Web. Jernigan has been immortalized as 15 gigabytes of data not for his life of crime, which culminated in the murder of a 75-year-old man who interrupted one of his burglaries, but because he was a fit 39-year-old killed neatly with chemicals. Lisa Cartwright describes his execution:
prison workers attached an IV catheter to Jernigan’s left hand and administered a drug that effectively suppressed the brain functions which regulate breathing… the catheter… functioned as a kind of prosthetic disciplinary hand of the state of Texas…
