A schoolmarm attempts to teach a group of men about justice, time, and irony in a repurposed saloon after they vote to have her hung for her disciplinarian ways.

A mother takes her son and his friend to a prison to see the electric chair to teach the boys about right and wrong at an early age.

A four-year-old black boy vaguely recalls a mixture of occurrences that puzzled him, including a sentenced hanging in his town of a man who allegedly murdered his wife.

After their father's accidental murder of a white man is revealed, two young Black girls scramble to save their father from a lifetime of prison.

After struggling to appeal to their state governor, a dysfunctional family anxiously awaits the public execution of a relative. As they wait at home new of the execution, tensions and strife erupt in a dispute over the relative's innocence.

A man incarcerated for murder navigates his time behind bars and his reintroduction to the world after being released.

A deputy warden gives a tour of a prison.

A teenage girl works to outsmart a serial killer whose obsession with punishment and justice leads him to kill girls in the name of banishing their sin. The story is inspired by the Edgar Allen Poe story "The Pit and the Pendulum."

A high school boy makes a habit of stealing cars, picking up girls, and skipping school. When he begins to worry that he is getting into too much trouble, the boy must decide whether to seek help or continue his criminal lifestyle.

A series of "sketches" illustrating the perverse and horrific crimes perpetrated by soldiers during WW2.