Dennis Hopper as the warden, commite suicide by ripping his face off in the "execution chamber," right before the big execution (of Mowatt); and with all the guards just looking on without trying to stop him.? One critic on the DVD label said it was one of his best performances? He acted like King Koopa in Supe Mario Bros. The guard who tauted Mowatt blows his brains out in front of the other guards. The judge who sentences the killer to death kills himself weeks after the killer pinches him on the neck in the courtroom. A scene shows militaty helicopter gunships escorting the killer to prison (supposedly giving support to the police convoy) with one helicopter firing its guns at another chopper in front of it? What was that supposed to mean? What a stupid movie.