Much Too Much

CBS Radio Mystery Theater "Much Too Much" is a Mystery from Monday, May 2, 1977.

When a Monegasque kills his wife while trying to do away with her lover, the King sentences him to death. The Ministers, realizing that the small kingdom has never held an execution, then try to rent a guillotine, but the price is too high. So they borrow one, with the prisoner's intercession, from Sweden, but it arrives rusted beyond repair. Meanwhile the prisoner, who is eating every meal as if it were his last, demands gourmet cooking from the kitchen. The King wonders if Monaco can afford the execution or if he should commute the prisoner's sentence to life in prison.