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Based on Ernest J. Gaines' National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel, A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Louisiana Cajun community in the late 1940's. Jefferson, a young illiterate black man, is falsely convicted of murder and is sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, the plantation schoolteacher, agrees to talk with the condemned man. The disheartened Wiggins had once harbored dreams of escaping from his impoverished youth, yet he returned...
2) The chamber
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Adam Hall is an idealistic young attorney who takes on the death row clemency case of his one-time Klansman grandfather, Sam Cayhall. With just 28 days before the execution, Adam sets out to retrace the events leading to the crime for which Sam was convicted. As the impending death sentence looms closer, Adam works quickly to uncover the family's history for any hidden clues. In a white-knuckle series of twists and turns, Adam discovers deceptions...
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This intense thriller follows one man's path to execution and the strong-minded doctor brought in to take a deeper look at the violent circumstances that have doomed him. Jackson Shea has lived a life of deceit, brutality and corruption. But when a series of chilling, violent events lands him on Death Row, Dr. Amanda Tyler must determine whether his violent behavior is inherent in his mental makeup, or if Jackson is able to be rehabilitated and should...
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"Most men would do anything to get out of Fox River Penitentiary, but Michael Scofield will do anything to get in. His brother Lincoln has been sentenced to die for a crime he did not commit, and the only way to save him is from the inside out. Armed with secret prison blueprints and an impossibly intricate escape plan, Michael gets himself incarcerated, and the race against time is on. Now, he'll need all of the cunning, daring, and luck he can...
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The undeniable power of the true stories of six exonerated survivors of death row will engage your emotion, incite your passion, and envelope you in their search for the lost pieces of dignity and the lives that were interrupted. The Exonerated began its journey over the summer of 2000, when authors Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen traveled across the United States, interviewing 40 of the (then) 89 former death row prisoners. They went as far south as...
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Most men would do anything to get out of jail, but Michael Scofield will do anything to get in. His brother has been sentenced to die for a crime he didn't commit, and the only way to save him is from the inside out. Once over the wall and on the run, the most-wanted men in America, Michael and his brother Lincoln Burrows, must lead a dangerous band of hardened fugitives on a daring international flight, chasing millions of dollars, risking everything...
9) Crossed over
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The true story of the powerful and healing friendship between a grieving mother and death row inmate Karla Faye Tucker.
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This intense thriller follows one man's path to execution and the strong-minded doctor brought in to take a deeper look at the violent circumstances that have doomed him. Jackson Shea has lived a life of deceit, brutality and corruption. But when a series of chilling, violent events lands him on Death Row, Dr. Amanda Tyler must determine whether his violent behavior is inherent in his mental makeup, or if Jackson is able to be rehabilitated and should...
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Special Edition Blu-ray edition that includes both the original 188 minute original cut and the 135 minute director's cut of Mailer's Pulitzer Prize winning novel based on the true story of Gary Gilmore, a convicted murderer who commited two separate and senseless murders then lobbied for his own execution, becoming the first person to be executed in the USA -- by firing squad, as he chose -- in over ten years since the government reinstated the death...
14) 4 movies
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Includes the features: Jewel; Endgame; The Execution of Raymond Graham; and Blood Brothers.
16) The way
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Jane an underground street fighter on death row, has discovered the way of Qi Gong. Twenty-four hours before her execution, she has accepted her fate. But her prison guard boyfriend intends to break her out and kill everyone who tries to stop him.
17) The exonerated
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Sixteen years. Imagine everything you could do with sixteen years. Imagine everything you did the last sixteen years. Now take it all away. Sunny Jacobs was convicted and sentenced to death for a crime she did not commit. Sixteen years was just the beginning of what was taken from Sunny Jacobs. Now as a film, the undeniable power of the true stories of six exonerated survivors of death row will engage your emotion, incite your passion, and envelop...
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The execution of Raymond Graham: Lifelong criminal Raymond Graham reflects on his life as he awaits lethal injection.
Taking back our town: A mother fights back against a petrochemical plant that threatens her family by releasing cancer-causing agents into the air.
Go tell it on the mountain: From the pages of James Baldwin's beloved novel comes an inspiring story of faith, family and growing up in an age of inequ.
Ripple effect: A fashion designer...