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.

After a man shoots a masked burglar who breaks into his home and pulls a gun on him, he is left to cope with the guilt of having taken a life.

An assassin begins to question the king's authority after they are forced to kill someone innocent. The assassin must decide if they will still protect the king, who is their brother, against a legendary murderer of royal figures.

When a pair of hitmen enter a saloon looking for their latest victim, the saloon’s staff and customers must find a way to prevent a murder from taking place.

A serial killer living in a post-apocalyptic world is amazed and frustrated when he discovers that the zombies decimating humanity won't touch 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 man estranged from his family returns to his family-owned farm to seek redemption or revenge.

A dysfunctional couple argues while detectives search their Bay Area neighborhood for a man who stabbed a police officer.

A schoolteacher at a newly desegregated Southern school agonizes over whether to turn a Black student in for the murder of a white boy in an alley fight, in order to prevent a white mob from murdering the student's friends and family. The Black student explains he didn't commit the murder and only acted in self-defense, but he insists on turning himself in to protect his neighborhood.

After being grazed by the bullet of a stalker's rifle, a man questions why everyone in town acts so calmly about the incident and wishes he had gotten shot properly.