A young man fresh out of law school tries to win a reprieve for his racist grandfather who is on death row.

Sam Cayhall: If you spend half as much time trying to be a lawyer instead of trying to be Dick Tracy, I might not be dead in five days.
Lee Bowen: Pretty good for poor white trash. How well I'll be accepted after everybody finds out I'm Hitler's daughter is another thing.
Nora Stark: You're in Mississippi now - land of the secrets. There are bodies buried everywhere.
Lee Bowen: We come from a long line of hate.
Sam Cayhall: Save me. Your don't look like you can save a turkey from Thanksgiving.
E. Garner Goodman: How much do you know about the death penalty?
Adam Hall: I've read everything there is.
E. Garner Goodman: Then you know nothing.