A death row killer has requested that his last meal be donated to a homeless person.

In 1984 Don Johnson killed his wife Connie by stuffing a bin bag down her throat.

Since he was sentenced to death for the killing, the 68-year-old has been on death row at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Tennessee.

Ahead of his death by lethal injection this evening, Johnson asked that his last meal be donated to someone in need.

He has asked a meal that he chooses from a menu given to inmates is passed on to a homeless person.

Public Defender Kelley Henry told Fox News : "Mr. Johnson realizes that his $20 allotment will not feed many homeless people.

"His request is that those who have supported him provide a meal to a homeless person."

Several religious figures, including the leader of Johnson's Seventh-day Adventist Church, have urged Tennessee Governor Bill Lee grant him clemency.

The inmates' supporters claim he experienced a religious conversion since being jailed and now ministers to other prisoners.

"I truly regret my life and what I became in the process," Johnson wrote in a statement.

"I am and will continue to carry the pain of all the grief that I have caused others to endure.

"It is because of the person that I had became that I found that I was not a man but a monster and I was determined this would no longer be acceptable and I sought the Lord for I was at the bottom of the barrel and the only way left for me was up."

Johnson's step-daughter Cynthia Vaughn has forgiven him for the crimes but his son Jason remains estranged.

At the beginning of May double murderer Scotty Morrow died by lethal injection in Georgia, USA.

Before the execution he tucked into a meal made up of a hamburger with mayonnaise, two chicken and waffle meals, a pint of butter pecan ice cream, a bag of buttered popcorn, two all-beef franks, and a large lemonade.

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