The Chamber, set largely in and around the Mississippi State Penitentiary, is the story of Sam Cayhall, a former Klansman who has been convicted of murder and sentenced to death by gas chamber twenty years after his bombing of a Jewish lawyer's office.
Cayhall's sentence has so far been held up by legal manoevering, but with all his appeals exhausted, he has weeks to live.
His grandson Adam Hall, a lawyer (whose father Eddie changed his family's ...
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The Chamber, set largely in and around the Mississippi State Penitentiary, is the story of Sam Cayhall, a former Klansman who has been convicted of murder and sentenced to death by gas chamber twenty years after his bombing of a Jewish lawyer's office.
Cayhall's sentence has so far been held up by legal manoevering, but with all his appeals exhausted, he has weeks to live.
His grandson Adam Hall, a lawyer (whose father Eddie changed his family's name because of the disgraceful family history) journeys south from Chicago to represent Sam in the final month before the date of execution.
Adam decided to become a lawyer soon after his father committed suicide on the day that Sam was convicted of murder in Mississippi. Adam is determined to argue a stay for his grandfather, in spite of Sam's violent past, because Sam is one of the few living links to his family's history. Sam and his daughter Lee Cayhall (Adam's aunt) reveal the gory history of their family.
Initially uncooperative and...
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