The lethal drug is administered and Jefferson dies. And the lawyers now have to return to their law practice and their lives. In intensity, the script and performances approach that of the remarkable film Dead Man Walking . The format is that a documentarian is making a film about Jefferson's last day and the legal machinations intended to halt or delay the execution. All players, including the victim's parents and Jefferson's family, get to say their piece.
Public opinion is sampled.
Each lawyer gets to reveal his or her feelings. Now, after a friend was murdered, she's not so sure. She now has a car, she says, but no bumper stickers. The focus is the effect the Jefferson case has on the five lawyers. The stress, obviously, is almost unbearable.