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The Virtual Corpse

2003-01-26 en 45m
Documentary
Documentary about the first human to donate his body to science so that it could be studied in the form of a 3D database of the entire anatomy that is available to view online. Convicted killer Joseph Paul Jernigan donated his body to science shortly before he was executed in 1993 and this documentary examines what took place after his death by lethal injection.

Executive Producer

Joe Berlinger

Executive Producer

Sheila Nevins

Editor

M. Watanabe Milmore

Director

Kaspar Kasics

Music

Michael Gerber

Assistant Director

Andrea Štaka

death penalty lethal injection capital punishment corpse

Status

Released

Countries

  • United States of America

Companies

  • Swiss Federal Office of Culture
  • HBO
  • Schweizer Fernsehen (FS)
  • eXtra Film