sentences:  The picture is based on an actual case tried in Louisiana in the 1940s.Adapted from the true crime book Stone Justice by Evelyn L. Morgan and Debi King McMartin.With all the picturesque glamour of the 1940s, "The Pardon" recounts the unlikely true story of Toni Jo Henry (Jaime King), a woman tried three times and executed in Louisiana, 1942.