The Traveling Executioner (1970)

1918: The year this man traveled the South with a portable electric chair.

95 min★ 6.3 · 510 votes

• Comedy
• Drama
• Western

Jonas Candide performs his job as state executioner in early 20th century Mississippi like a combination preacher and carnival barker, persuading condemned men to accept their deaths before electrocuting them on his electric chair. After he's assigned his first woman to execute, however, Jonas' sense of purpose is shaken.

Release date

October 1, 1970

Country of origin

United States