The Virtual Corpse
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.
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Swiss Federal Office of Culture, HBO, Schweizer Fernsehen (FS), eXtra Film, HBO Documentary Films, SWR
- Nøgleord: death penalty, lethal injection, capital punishment, corpse
- Cast: Victor Spitzer, Bob Jernigan, Michael Ackerman, Reverend Carroll L Pickett, Vicky Layfield, Jody Tullos
