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Publisher
Distributed by] Facets Multimedia
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
An intimate look at the death penalty in the state of Texas through the eyes of Pastor Carroll Pickett, who served 15 years as the death house chaplain to the infamous 'Walls' prison unit in Huntsville. During Pickett's remarkable career he presided over 95 executions, including the world's first lethal injection. After each execution, Pickett recorded an audiotape account of his trip to the death chamber.
42) No tomorrow
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
As profiled in the film Aging Out, Risa Bejarano was a foster care success story. Recently graduated, she set out for with a sense of excitement about her future. Then she was brutally murdered. As prosecutors used the film to heighten sympathy for the victim and hatred for the defendant, the filmmakers made No Tomorrow, which focuses on the trial and the unexpected use of Aging Out as evidence.
43) The Mighty Ducks
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
2000, ©1992.
Language
English
Description
Slapped with a community service assignment, a tough trial lawyer must coach a ragtag team of pee wee hockey players who can't skate, can't score and can't win.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"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...
Series
Film Movement volume year 5, film 10
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
Danish
Description
Ivan, an unusually optimistic preacher, takes in convicts to help around the remote, rural church to which he ministers. One of his helpers, Adam, is a vicious neo-Nazi serving community service time. Grasping the extent of Ivan's preternatutal determination to look on the bright side of everything, Adam decides to shake Ivan out of his rose-colored world.
46) Shame on you
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
To response to acts of delinquency and criminal offenses the US states of Texas, Tennessee, and Missouri have resorted to public humiliation in lew of jail time. The basic idea in quite simple, once they have been arrested, the offenders must choose between jail or public humiliation. The public humiliation can take the form of walking with a sign explaining the reason why you were arrested or having your picture broadcasted on the local television....
47) Sakra
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Based on the classic wuxia novel Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils by Louis Cha (known worldwide by his pen name Jin Yong), this stars Donnie Yen as Qiao Feng, the respected leader of a roving band of martial artists. After he is wrongfully accused of murder and subsequently exiled, Qiao Feng goes on the run in search of answers about his own mysterious origin story, and the unknown enemies working to destroy him from the shadows.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When a judge orders Madea to do 20 hours of community service at a local retirement home, the residents and staff are not ready for Madea's brand of 'the truth'. All's well that ends well when Madea helps the residents of Easy Rest Retirement Home realize the importance of family, love and forgiveness.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Billy Wayne Sinclair was only 21 when he heard the Louisiana judge pronounce these words: "I hereby sentence you to death in the electric chair." It was the culmination of a botched holdup committed the year before in which Billy had accidentally shot and killed a man. Billy spent the next 40 years in Angola Prison, one of the country's worst, six of those years on death row. When in 1972 the Supreme Court struck down the death penalty as arbitrary...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Beyond These Walls is an ambitious and far-ranging exploration that tracks the legacy of crime and imprisonment in the United States, from the historical roots of the American criminal justice system to our modern state of over-incarceration, and offers a bold vision for a new future. Author Tony Platt, a recognized authority in the field of criminal justice, challenges the way we think about how and why millions of people are tracked, arrested,...
53) Moonrise
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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.
54) The phantom
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The Phantom tells the story of one of the darkest episodes in the long history of American justice. A story of how the State of Texas knowingly sent an innocent man to his death and left a serial killer at large. A case in which for the first time it can be conclusively proven that the US courts executed a blameless man. This film uncovers the shocking truth behind a tale of murder, corruption and lies that unfolded in the dusty, desperate streets...
55) Poison study
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Murder, mayhem and magic…
Locked in a coffin-like darkness, there is nothing to distract me from my memories of killing Reyad. He deserved to die-but according to the law, so do I. Here in Ixia, the punishment for murder is death. And now I wait for the hangman's noose. But the same law that condemns me may also save me. Ixia's food taster-chosen to ensure that the Commander's food is not poisoned-has died. And by law, the next prisoner who is...
56) Doc Hollywood
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A big-city doctor on the way to a job interview in L.A. gets stranded in a small town in forced to do community service in the way of medical work. Although eager to leave, a local beauty might persuade him to stay.
57) Goodbye monster
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
While trying to save the Healing Island from dark spirits, a healer with an untested theory and amazing powers accidentally destroys it. Banished for years, he returns to help a lovable young patient and hopes to redeem himself by restoring his home and healing the world.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a CIA covert mission goes badly awry, U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Nicholas Flynn is exiled to guard a remote radar post along Alaska's Arctic frontier. This dead-end assignment is designed to put his career permanently on ice, but Flynn's not the type to fade quietly into obscurity...
As winter storms pound Alaska and northern Canada, Russian aircraft begin penetrating deep into friendly airspace. Are these rehearsals for a possible...
Author
Language
English
Description
A gripping exploration of a jury's members' perspectives on the most wrenching decision: the death sentence
With a life in the balance, a jury convicts a man of murder and now has to decide whether he should be put to death. Twelve people now face a momentous choice.
Bringing drama to life, A Life and Death Decision gives unique insight into how a jury deliberates. We feel the passions, anger, and despair as the jurors grapple with legal, moral,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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...
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