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IN THE EXECUTIONER’S SHADOW explores justice, injustice and the death penalty. The film interweaves three compelling personal narratives. One is the story of a couple who lost their young, adult daughter to a violent rape and murder. Motivated by their deep religious convictions, Vicki and Sylvester fight to spare the life of their daughter’s killer. Karen, a survivor of the Boston Marathon bombing, agonizes to define justice. In the aftermath of the tragedy, she’s torn between the fatal punishment that could be imposed upon a terrorist and the protective instincts of a mother whose son is the same age as the bomber. The fulcrum between these stories is the rarely heard perspective of a former chief executioner. The discovery that an inmate he was scheduled to execute was ultimately exonerated, gives Jerry a profound epiphany that few will ever know.