***SPOILERS*** Given permission to photograph mad dog killer Edwin Bray, Phillip Pine, just hours before he's to be executed at Bryson State Prison freelance photographer Mke Kovac, Charles Bronson, as well as the priest, James Bell, who's to give Bray the last rites end up being the murderously crazed and deranged man's hostages instead! Kovac didn't believe what he read and heard about Bray in just how totally evil he was and wan't to see for himself if all the stories about him is true. It didn't take long for Kovac to find out in Bray not only putting a gun to Priest Bell's skull but gunning down one of the prison guards for no other reason only to show just how both evil and rotten he is!
Coming from the same neighborhood that Bray comes from Kovac heard some good things about him from old lady Kozlenko about how sweet he was to her cat and it's litter of some half dozen kittens. But the way Bray acted since then,in him gunning some half dozen people in cold blood, made Kovac drastically change his opinion of the convicted murderer.
With nothing to lose in him scheduled to be executed in less then an hour and Bray taking control of the prison infirmary the only thing that the prison Warden Fowler, Jay Barney, could do is wait for Bray to let his guard down and give his sharpshooters a chance to take him out. The chance to put an end to this hostage situation comes when Bray leaves the infirmary in order to get into a car provided by the warden for him to make his escape! Escape to where?
***SPOILERS*** As it soon becomes apparent Bray had no plans to really go anywhere but the prison morgue. That what it looked like to me at least. He knew that he was doomed but he wanted to go out fighting as a free man not a convict walking his last mile helpless and handcuffed through the little green door with the electric chair waiting for him to be strapped down into. And in the end Bray did get his wish courtesy of a direct hit by one of the prison guards who had him in his gun-site as he emerged, with Mike Kovac, from hiding!
Coming from the same neighborhood that Bray comes from Kovac heard some good things about him from old lady Kozlenko about how sweet he was to her cat and it's litter of some half dozen kittens. But the way Bray acted since then,in him gunning some half dozen people in cold blood, made Kovac drastically change his opinion of the convicted murderer.
With nothing to lose in him scheduled to be executed in less then an hour and Bray taking control of the prison infirmary the only thing that the prison Warden Fowler, Jay Barney, could do is wait for Bray to let his guard down and give his sharpshooters a chance to take him out. The chance to put an end to this hostage situation comes when Bray leaves the infirmary in order to get into a car provided by the warden for him to make his escape! Escape to where?
***SPOILERS*** As it soon becomes apparent Bray had no plans to really go anywhere but the prison morgue. That what it looked like to me at least. He knew that he was doomed but he wanted to go out fighting as a free man not a convict walking his last mile helpless and handcuffed through the little green door with the electric chair waiting for him to be strapped down into. And in the end Bray did get his wish courtesy of a direct hit by one of the prison guards who had him in his gun-site as he emerged, with Mike Kovac, from hiding!
