Judge Beck is a hanging Judge. He has hung 27 men. He hires Slade to learn about 3 men that escaped judgment. Slade is asked to stay on after the job is done. He soon learns the Judge is haunted by the 27 men he has hung.

Slade is hired to persuade five men to visit the plantation of a man they have never met. Fifteen years after five comrades had saved themselves by handing him to the Apaches as a slave, an ex-soldier prepares five graves for them, with a sixth for Shotgun Slade.