Screenplay
Um ex-presidiário quer largar o crime para começar uma nova vida. Porém, para poder fazer isso, ele é forçado a se infiltrar na quadrilha de um cruel e poderoso mafioso que a polícia tenta prender há muito tempo.
Story
In a barroom fight over Connie Zelenko, Eddie Dickinson is badly wounded and Connie's boyfriend is killed. Witnesses claim Dickinson is the killer, but he maintains his innocence despite public prosecutor Murray Brock's advice that he plead guilty and take a life-imprisonment sentence rather than risk capital punishment. When Connie comes out of hiding, she confirms the other witnesses' stories, but Brock believes Dickinson is innocent. Dickinson sticks to his story at his trial but receives the death sentence. In the death house, Dickinson continues to maintain his innocence, but after the execution of the sentence, Brock receives a letter from Dickinson confessing to the murder.
Story
Lawmen free a convict to hunt his ex-cellmate.
Novel
Jim Curtayne, um ex-advogado de defesa de sucesso que agora é um alcoólatra em recuperação, tenta uma resposta quando defende o filho de um vizinho que enfrenta uma acusação de homicídio.
Story
An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.