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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence. • LOOK FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES
“Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true.”—Entertainment Weekly
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“Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true.”—Entertainment Weekly
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Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Matthew Poncelet is the convicted killer of two teenage lovers, preparing to end his life on death row. In response to a letter, Sister Helen Prejean visits Matthew and finds herself face-to-face with a killer who still pleads his innocence. When the date is set for his execution death by lethal injection, Poncelet asks Sister Helen to be his spiritual advisor and she agrees, little knowing the outrage that will follow her decision.
5) Day break
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"In Iran, capital punishment is carried out according to Islamic law, which gives the family of the victim ownership of the offender's life. Day Break, based on a compilation of true stories and shot inside Tehran's century-old prison, revolves around the imminent execution of Mansour, a man found guilty of murder. When the family of the victim repeatedly fails to show up on the appointed day, Mansour's execution is postponed again and again. Stuck...
8) Badlands
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1973, p2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Set in South Dakota in 1959, this is the story of Kit and his girlfriend Holly, two people alienated from everyday life, who go on a killing spree.
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Hank and Leticia inhabit stark, queasy realities of the contemporary South, he as a death row corrections officer and she as the soon-to-be widow of an inmate whose execution Hank helps conduct. In the aftermath of the execution, both lose their children to tragic deaths and they form an unlikely bond.
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Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
368 pages
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"A deeply reported, searingly honest portrait of the death penalty in Texas--and what it tells us about crime and punishment in America. In 1972, the United States Supreme Court made a surprising ruling: the country's death penalty system violated the Constitution. The backlash was swift, especially in Texas, where executions were considered part of the cultural fabric, and a dark history of lynching was masked by gauzy visions of a tough-on-crime...
13) Moonrise
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 22 cm
Description
With little money or support, Joe Moon, seventeen, travels to Texas to help the older brother he barely knows through his last few weeks before being executed for murder.
14) 12 angry men
Series
Criterion collection volume 591
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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A behind-closed-doors look at the American legal system as riveting as it is spare, the iconic adaptation of Reginald Rose's teleplay stars Henry Fonda as the initially dissenting member of a jury of white men ready to pass judgment on a Puerto Rican teenager charged with murdering his father. What results is a saga of epic proportions that plays out in real time over ninety minutes in one sweltering room. One of the most radical big-screen courtroom...
15) Badlands
Series
Criterion collection volume 651
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Kit and Holly, a young couple alienated from everyday life, go on a killing spree in 1959 South Dakota.
16) The green mile
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (188 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Death Row guards at a penitentiary, in the 1930's, have a moral dilemma with their job when they discover one of their prisoners, a convicted murderer, has a special gift.
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Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xv, 140 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"Every Last Tie is David's highly personal and powerful memoir of his family, as well as a meditation on the possibilities for reconciliation and maintaining family bonds. Seen through David's eyes, Ted was a brilliant, yet troubled, young mathematician and a loving older brother. Their parents were supportive and emphasized to their sons the importance of education and empathy. But as Ted grew older he became more and more withdrawn, his behavior...
18) Cell 8
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Series
Publisher
Silver Oak
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
An Ohio death row inmate, convicted of killing his 16-year-old girlfriend when he was 17 years old, dies of heart disease. Six years later, the police arrest a Canadian expatriate living in Sweden for repeatedly kicking a drunken man in the head. A cantankerous Det. Supt. Ewert Grens of the Stockholm police discovers that the foreigner in their jail cell is a convicted murderer, the same death row inmate who supposedly died in America six years earlier....
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Series
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The last meals of death row convicts fascinate us because they offer an insight into a disturbed mind shortly before its owner's death. The last meal is a way for the system to offer a last-minute nod to humanity--that although these murderers, rapists, and villains listed inside may have performed inhuman acts, they are still indeed human.
The irony of feeding a criminal before killing them by electrocution or lethal injection is not missed...
20) There is no evil
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells four stories of Iranian men who face the difficult choice between following their conscience or risking everything they have.
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