In the context of the film's theme of capital punishment, an execution scene shows the legs of several condemned prisoners drop into sight and jerk violently as the men hang. Streams of urine drip through the pants of the men's prison uniforms as their bladders are loosened at the point of death. There is no sight of their faces. In another scene, a man repeatedly submerges his head in water and holds his breath; on the final occasion, he appears to be in danger, but comes up and gasps for air.