sentences:  The play stars John Brennan, a death row convict who kicked in the face of a drug dealer named Dwayne Rigby prior to the start of the play.John, an articulate person who writes for the ""Death Row Advocate"," meets Robert Alvin "Bobby" Reyburn, an uneducated hick carrying a death sentence for burning a church filled with African-American worshippers.The play explores the concept of the death penalty and the meaning of evil.