"Cruel and Unusual tells the story of comedian Keith Farnan’s journey from law school in Ireland to the Innocence Project in New York City; meeting with Sr.Helen Prejean of Dead Man Walking fame, to a public defenders office in Georgia - where he wonders whether the Irish might just be the only people in the world who can stop the death penalty in America. This hard-hitting and scabrously funny show makes a laughing stock of the stocks by ridiculing the system as seen through the eyes of an Irish comedian. It shows the Death Penalty in its true light - a barbaric, racist, politically motivated act of revenge that doesn’t achieve any of its so called aims, including deterring violent crime. And it’s just plain stupid."