[SteveFish]

Speaking of Texas. In 1993 Joseph Paul Jernigan, a murderer, was executed in Texas by lethal injection after donating his body to science. The Visible Human Project had the freshly dead cadaver scanned by MRI and frozen. The body was then "sectioned" by removing a thin slice and digitally photographing the resulting surface from the top of his head to the bottom of his feet. All these data were processed by computed tomography to make a three dimensional data set that can be rotated and resectioned digitally in any plane, and organs or any part of the body can be displayed in a three dimensional view. Nobody observed a soul in the process, but anybody can access the result. This was a wonderful contribution to research and medicine.

Wikipedia article- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_Human_Project
The project website- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html