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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 5x34

Cell 227

Herbert Morrison is on death row facing execution. He hates a man named Pops Lafferty who continually tries to cheer up inmates on death row. The day of Morrison’s execution, he attacks Pops and kills him. Later, however, he discovers that a witness had come forward and cleared him of the murder that put him on death row. Unfortunately, Morrison also learns that he faces the gas chamber for killing Pops.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 5 Episode 34
Jun. 05, 1960