Having survived the hatred and bigotry that was his Klansman grandfather's only legacy, young attorney Adam Hall seeks at the last minute to appeal the old man's death sentence for the murder of two small Jewish boys 30 years before. Only four weeks before Sam Cayhall is to be executed, Adam meets his grandfather for the first time in the Mississippi prison which has held him since the crime. The meeting is predictably tense when the educated, young Mr. "Hall" confronts his venom-spewing elder, Mr. "Cayhall," about the murders. The next day, headlines run proclaiming Adam the grandson who has come to the state to save his grandfather, the infamous Ku Klux Klan bomber. While the old man's life lies in the balance, Adam's motivation in fighting this battle becomes clear as the story unfolds. Not only does he fight for his grandfather, but perhaps for himself as well. He has come to heal the wounds of his own father's suicide...
Two children are killed in a bombing.
When Sam is executed and the gas reaches his face, he foams at the mouth and his eyes roll up into the back of his head
A black man is beaten and then killed with a shotgun blast(some blood and brutal).
Some grainy black and white photos of lynchings.
A brief glimpse of a boxing match at a KKK rally.
Violent threats are made.
A brief shot of a man who committed suicide(some blood but very briefly flashed).
profanity
The plot of the film is a bigot on death row who murdered for the KKK. Almost nonstop racial slurs and a large dose of misc. profanity roll from beginning to end.
alcohol
Alcohol consumption at various points in the film.
Prison smoking.
frightening
The execution scene may cause some upset as it is on a graphic side
