But the uncut version isn't extraordinarily explicit, and in many ways, the version of The Executioner's Song now on DVD is too betwixt-and-between: not long enough to be a fully realized ...

Similar to The Executioner’s Song, Joe begged to be put out of his misery and was instead given a lifetime to suffer for all that he’s done.

The Executioner’s Song — both Norman Mailer’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1979 novel and the NBC adaptation that won Tommy Lee Jones an Emmy in 1983 — are now considered classics of the true ...