“I gave the last rites to Joseph Hickey before they took him to the electric chair.I remember the look on his face. I remember his twisted smile as I made the sign of the cross.And I remember wanting to kill the sonofabitch with my bare hands.” Sing Sing Prison, 1962. Troubled prison chaplain, John Henry Beauregard, gives the last rites to […]
“I gave the last rites to Joseph Hickey before they took him to the electric chair.
I remember the look on his face. I remember his twisted smile as I made the sign of the cross.
And I remember wanting to kill the sonofabitch with my bare hands.”
Sing Sing Prison, 1962. Troubled prison chaplain, John Henry Beauregard, gives the last rites to Joseph Hickey, a psychopath sentenced to death for killing a young family in New York State.
After witnessing Hickey’s execution, John Henry quits his job and moves to a cabin in the Appalachian Mountains in South Carolina.
Soon after, another family is murdered in identical circumstances, and John Henry is drawn into a mystery that has devastating consequences and leads to a showdown where his life and soul are at stake.
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