Try and stick to 25 words. It's good discipline and helps when you're trying to keep white space in the script too. Here are some ideas:
A loving (heart-broken? Or better still think of a new, uncommon adjective) single mother is placed on death row (and battles with who? The justice system? or what? her heart?) after her son is hospitalized (can you be stronger - savagely beaten? Or something stronger) because of his sexual orientation.
Maybe...
When a boy is left half-dead after a homophobic attack, his broken-hearted mother takes revenge, but finds protecting him harder from Death Row...
Just ideas...take or toss out, as you will :)