Aggravating Factor: One Buried Report. Nine Days Until Execution.

Everett Devlin swore he would never take another death penalty case. Not after they strapped his last client to the table and made him watch.

Then a triple-murder appeal lands on his desk with nine days left on the warrant, and the condemned man turns out to be the coach who once believed in Everett's kid brother. So he opens the box. And inside it he finds a serology report the defense was never given, one that points away from the man the state is about to kill.

Within a day, the sample it ...