To be able to write accurately about the psychological effects of capital punishment, a crusading but stubborn newspaper journalist named Frank Harris has himself placed on death row, where he masquerades as a convict under an assumed identity. Suddenly his outside contacts disappear, and his real identity and innocence of any capital crime are forgotten. Unable to convince prison officials of his actual identity, he is scheduled to be executed. He is strapped into the electric chair while one of his jailers, an old enemy who knows his real identity, merely watches and smiles.
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