Describes the deadly rampage of predatory murderer Westley Allan Dodd, who was convicted in the sex killings of three innocent young boys and who, in 1993, became the first criminal in American in nearly thirty years to be executed by hanging.

Dodd wrote detailed accounts of his murders in a diary that was found by police. After pleading guilty to charges of murder, he received the death penalty. After refusing an automatic appeal, he was executed by hanging on January 5, 1993, the first legal hanging in the United States since 1965.