In fifty-two hours, nineteen-year-old Ronald Thompson must die in the electric chair for the murder of a young woman—though he insists he is innocent. The victim’s husband, Stephen Petersen, spoke the loudest in favor of the death penalty for the killer. But the sudden abduction of his little son—the only witness of the murders—and journalist Sharon Martin, with whom Stephen has tender feelings, make him look at the events from two years ago in a new way. Is it possible that during the investigation a mistake was made, and the real killer is still at large?