Quantum Leap (1989): Season 3, Episode 19 - ProjectFreeTV

3 - 19: Last Dance Before an Execution - May 12, 1971

Just think of someplace far away" is the advice Sam hears as he leaps into Jesus Ortega, a Cuban-American being strapped into an electric chair. A last second stay of execution gives Sam just forty-eight hours to either prove himself innocent or fulfill his mission so that he can leap before the Big Switch is pulled.