A Cruel and Unusual Night

Name: A Cruel and Unusual Night
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Released: 1964-06-04
Cast: Clancy Cooper, Don Diamond, Anne Helm, Ronald Reagan, Wright King

S1 E28 June 4, 1964

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Overview

A stern Lucas County, California "letter of the law" judge is kidnapped and "sentenced" to death by a man he once sentenced to death. The one-time Death Row prisoner recalls the agonies he went through as he awaited death by gas chamber. As his story is detailed tension builds and two questions remain to be answered-(1) "Will the judge crack?" and (2) "Will the execution be carried out?"