A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
Paul Kelly
as Douglas Goodwin
Marsha Hunt
as Claire Patterson
Kent Taylor
as Jerry Welch
Robert Cummings
as Jimmy Ellis
Harry Carey
as Sen. Nash
Bernadene Hayes
as Muriel Goodwin
Hilda Vaughn
as Muriel's Maid
Thomas E. Jackson
as Lead Investigator Logan
DeWitt Jennings
as Prison Warden
Fred Kohler
as Curly-haired Convict
Ralf Harolde
as Lean, Angry Convict
Joe Sawyer
as Father Reed, chaplain
