Editing I Want to Live! (section)

===Filming===
Principal photography began in March 1958. Production was stopped after Hayward contracted [[measles]].<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=April 2, 1958|page=2|title=Star Gets Measles|url=https://archive.org/details/variety210-1958-04/page/n1/mode/1up?view=theater|via=[[Archive.org]]|access-date=May 6, 2023}}</ref>

To ensure that the execution sequence was depicted as accurately as possible, Wise attended a public execution at San Quentin.{{sfn|Cairns|2013|p=112}} Hayward commented after completing filming that her simulated experience of execution convinced her that the practice was "medieval."{{sfn|Cairns|2013|p=112}}