The Glass Guillotine

In the hyper-secure Ceres Penitentiary of the fictional Republic of Eldoria, a death-row inmate dies mysteriously hours before his execution. Disbarred attorney-turned-investigator Lena Dahlstrom, haunted by a past injustice, infiltrates the prison's facade of rehabilitation. What begins as a suspicious death unravels into a chilling conspiracy: the state’s progressive, painless execution technology is a front for an illegal biomedical program using prisoners as involuntary subjects. As Lena digs deeper, she discovers that society's march toward civility has not eradicated cruelty—it has sanitized it, turning the ultimate punishment into a high-tech harvest of human life.