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The documentary crew, given access to the prison warden, guards and chaplain and to Johnson and his family, filmed the last days of Johnson's life in detail. The documentary argues against the death penalty and maintains that capital punishment is disproportionately applied to African-Americans convicted of crimes against whites.
According to the Cambridge Companion on Tolstoy, the work is directed against the death penalty. It was incomplete, and when published after Tolstoy's death, resulted in a flood of letters, the reaction mixed. The government tried to censor the work, sentencing one person distributing copies of it to prison. [2]
Return with Honor is a 1999 documentary film about U.S. prisoners of war during the Vietnam War. [1] Among those profiled is Senator John McCain. It is narrated by Tom Hanks. Directors Freida Lee Mock and Terry Sanders won the Best Film award at the 1999 Cleveland International Film Festival.
In 1992, Sir Carol Mather, a veteran turned Conservative MP wrote in his memoirs Aftermath of War: Everyone Must Go Home that the overwhelming feeling shared by himself and other British Army officers in Austria in 1945 was that the Cossacks had willingly fought for Nazi Germany and had committed terrible atrocities against Italian civilians ...
The third, "Working", discusses the processes the authors used to get their research material, [5] and ethics-based arguments regarding the death penalty. [2] The book includes a DVD containing a 1979 documentary, [2] Death Row, including interviews of Ellis Unit capital punishment prisoners, made by the authors. Pike called it "exceptional".
A gruesome crime, a cruel penalty. Some might think justice was done. But was it?
After 90 days, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, then the top allied war commander, admitted Marjah had become a “bleeding ulcer.” It would be 10 months before the Marines could declare victory. Charlie One-Six was in the thick of it. They started taking casualties even before the battle officially began. “There was a lot of death. They lost close ...
A pair of blood-spattered trousers in a miso tank and an allegedly forced confession helped send Iwao Hakamata to death row in the 1960s. Now, more than five decades later, the world’s longest ...