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Indeed, I've seen the most blood-curdling thirst for the same come out, self-contradictorily enough, on far-too-many occasions, whenever the categorically anti-death penalty advocates are confronted, even in the most rationally well-balanced ways, with the fact that, although the Lord died for everybody, not all are thereby going to be saved.
To fight against the death penalty is a just cause.
The film seems to demonstrate in a first stage that justice can be won against the racist bigot death penalty craving American justice.
The film then is a deep reflection on the necessity to respect standards and regulations all along the police and justice line if we don't want to make a mistake, which in its turn of course does not justify the death penalty since anyway it goes against the deepest belief Americans are supposed to have: "We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."
The death penalty is the arrogant appropriation of a power that we do not have.
Even if we do not evoke God, we cannot justify the death penalty except as an act of vengeance, and here the film shows vengeance is the worst possible motivation in the rendition of justice and in the establishment of public peace.
If vengeance is pushed aside there is no other justification for this death penalty.
Giovanni Ribisi plays his younger brother, who has the delicate mission of deciding if he will appeal to the courts for his brother's death penalty.
Here she contributes a winning turn as a chambermaid suborned to play a minor part in a nefarious scheme; watch her half-heartedly trying to wave away the smoke when she's puffing a furtive cigarette in the hotel's linen-storage room -- a transgression for which she ultimately pays the supreme penalty.
When Gable is accused of murder and sentenced to the death penalty, it is Powell's duty to decide whether or not to let his personal feelings for Gable interfere with his practice of legal justice.
The tasks during the race varies if a team is unable to complete a task they will be assessed a penalty and can't check in until the time is up.
Part of the problem is that we see right from the start that the penalty for disturbing the buried crown of Anglia is death, and the rest of the film merely plays out exactly the same pattern, as Peter Vaughan searches for and finds the crown, is pursued by a ghost and dies in exactly the same way.
So already (as you see) race, politics, and the validity of the death penalty get pulled in.
It's plain boring... Questioning death penalty is a highly complex matter, as is comparing different law and moral systems.
And If Europeans told the United States that they have to ban the death penalty within one or two or three years to be granted the privilege of being recognized as a democracy and keep the status of permanent veto-endowed member of the Security Council of the United Nations that could be withdrawn from them because of their not having banned the death penalty, they would react violently and viciously.
Yet to join the European Community you have to ban the death penalty.
It seems to me that this movie was made as an attack on the death penalty.
While I have no problem with the use of the death penalty, I strongly agree with the major contention of the film.
I understand the intentions of the producers, they wanted to show to the viewers, that there was a few kids that have been charged with murder and put to death penalty... but that is only theoretical truth, deathpenaltyinfo.org on this page you can see all the people punished with death sentence, for the crime they've committed, when they were under aged... as you can see all the defendants were 17, not 14, when they committed the crime...
What was with the trial? the death penalty thing?
Formidable film built on an original scenario, Two men in the city is a load against the death penalty and a dark report on the incapacity of the Republic to grant one second chance to that which made an error.
The system treated her badly, and I personally oppose the death penalty in all cases; and yet it's hard to imagine how anyone in her position could generate less sympathy than Wuornos does.
A viable alternative to the death penalty would be repeated viewing of this movie.
On the surface "The Chamber" is about a young lawyer named Adam Hall (Chris O'Donnell) who is trying to save his grandfather (Gene Hackman) from the death penalty.
How this man accused of murder and facing the death penalty became the man he is, the sort of things he'd gone through, and all the while, trying to prove his innocence.
And the judge decided to impose life imprisonment but for first degree murder it could have been the death penalty.
It is such cases that prove that jury justice is maybe good in many cases but there are a few cases where it is the worst possible system, and that is why the death penalty should be gotten rid of, and that's why we should make sure the defendants, now sentenced culprits, have access to all possibilities and opportunities to appeal the decision and to have the best councilors available.
This movie is one great leftist movie about recycling, the memories of a schoolbus, and anti-death penalty.
It's about a man, now in prison waiting for the death penalty telling us how he got here.
His character was as revolting, cold, and repugnantly racist as a human being could be, but Hackman played Sam Cayhall as a person with a surprising depth and emotion that, although you couldn't exactly like him, you find yourself quietly hoping his death penalty will be overturned as he plumbs the depths of his evil deeds and confronts his past.
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