A Covenant with Death
The bristling best seller comes to angry life.
An innocent man is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, but as he's about to be hanged he accidentally kills his executioner. He now faces a new trial, presided over by a young and inexperienced judge.
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: William Conrad Productions
- Keyword: judge, death sentence, capital punishment, justice, bordertown, mexican american, miscarriage of justice, murder trial, 1920s, unfaithful wife, mob justice, unjust conviction, mockery of justice, rural south, husband murders wife, circumstantial evidence
- Cast: George Maharis, Earl Holliman, Laura Devon, Katy Jurado, Gene Hackman, Arthur O'Connell