Back in the day when you could guilt someone into reacting and doing the right thing, we get a story about Paladin trying to get an execution postponed by a few hours.
The Warden's son got killed, and Roy Carter (Scott Marlowe) was convicted. His father pays Paladin 5 large to keep his son from hanging. $5,000 in 1870 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $117,078.63 today, an increase of $112,078.63 over 154 years.
For that kind of money, Paladin breaks Roy Carter out of the gallows, right before he hangs. Roughing up the guards, Paladin and Carter run back into the prison! Back into Carter's jail cell, Paladin breaks the lock, and gets his head smashed with the back of an angry guard's rifle. Pretty neat trick to break into jail, in order to avoid hanging.
John Larch plays a prison minister who is used to getting pushed around by the warden (Paul Birch). When the guards are about to break the cell open so they can hang Carter, Larch snaps and fights them all to break the metal saw, and keep Carter from hanging.
It was good drama, some action, and Carter gets exonerated at the end. Paladin shows Larch that he is sincere by giving Larch most of his $5000.00 payment, so that Larch can open a library at the prison. A positive story all around.