Jonas Candide performs his job as state executioner in early 20th century Mississippi like a combination preacher and carnival barker, persuading condemned men to accept their deaths before electrocuting them on his electric chair. After he's assigned his first woman to execute, however, Jonas' sense of purpose is shaken.
Stacy Keach
Bud Cort
Marianna Hill
Graham Jarvis
James Sloyan
M. Emmet Walsh
John Bottoms
Ford Rainey
James Greene
Sam Reese
Stefan Gierasch
Logan Ramsey
Charles Tyner
William Mims
Val Avery
Walter Barnes
Charlie Briggs
Paul Gauntt
Jason Wingreen
Pat Patterson
Katherine MacGregor