After being sentenced to death row, a man must seek help from his cellmates

A deputy warden gives a tour of a prison.

In 18th century France, an executioner faces enormous job stress leading up to and throughout the French Revolution. He must choose between his beloved wife and his job, and he struggles to leave the profession that was his father's before him.

In an alternate universe in 19th century Boston, a single mother commits an act of unnatural cruelty against her son. However, since women are invincible against a man's violence, the wife of an esteemed policeman takes on the task of executing her, only to have second thoughts in the cold gallows.

A famous cook prepares the last meal of a prisoner on death row, abiding his wishes to be poisoned to death by her.

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.

In a small rural American town in the late 1800s, a woman's eldest son is accused of committing murder. She takes her younger children to watch him be executed, hoping they will not follow a similar path.

Professor gives a talk about the human appetite for death

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."

When a young diplomat stationed in Saudi Arabia stands in for his superior to address a mysterious case involving family honor, things take a violent turn for the worse.