Une peine d'exception

Strange ritual to prepare the autopsy of a man who is not yet dead... This is nevertheless what the forensic doctor Kay Scarpetta is busy with, on this December evening, waiting for the body of Ronnie Joe Waddell, who will not be officially declared dead in the electric chair until 11:05 pm. That same night, the body of a thirteen-year-old boy is discovered, mutilated, against a dumpster. And the fingerprint of a man who cannot be guilty is found at the crime scene - the same fingerprint that led to Waddell's conviction...