Ethel says her husband's had heart attacks before and worries that he'll have another and die. It's not stated that he's had one when he falls out of his chair, but it's implied.
The only person who is stated to be mentally ill is also heavily refuted to be mentally ill as a defense in court. There is much said and done to believe the man in question is not. All other violent people's mental illness statuses are not known.
A KKK man is burned alive with a molotov cocktail. He is put out with a fire extinguisher. In the following scene it is confirmed that he died from his injuries.
The husband of the elderly assistant at his firm was beating by the klan. If my memory serves correct, he died/almost died from a heart attack or stroke and she ends up leaving.
Kind of. Two rapists try to hang a young girl after brutally raping her. The branch is too weak and breaks. A young female law clerk is tied to a post with her wrists above her head. She is left that way at least overnight.
A young girl is tied up, brutally raped, has full beer cans thrown at her, she is urinated on, the men try to hang her but the branch is too weak & it breaks. The men then throw her in the truck, drive to a cliff & throw her over. She falls 30 feet.
Kind of. Sam Jackson's character knows he may spend the rest of his life in jail and may even get the death penalty when he kills the man who raped his daughter. He was sacrificing his freedom and perhaps his life. Though he did hope that he could get legal help to avoid those consequences.
A young girl is snatched off the street and raped. She is ultimately released but seriously injured.
A law clerk is abducted by the Klan & taken out of town where she is stripped, beaten, & tied to a post. She is left there until another Klan member frees her. She is then hospitalized for a few days due to her injuries.
Though there is a scene where a law clerk breaks into a mental institution, but only to an office. A doctor who heads the mental institution gives testimony in court as well.
This question is worded in an odd way. This does have a happy ending. As happy as it can be anyway for a story about the rape of a young girl that causes injuries so severe she will never have children.