Sentences with phrase «as death row»

Granted, the cast consists of some very competent and memorable actors, including Adrien Brody as Royce, a mercenary, Walton Goggins as Death Row inmate Stans, and Danny Trejo as a cartel hit man, to name a few.
King's campaign said he would decline to issue death warrants as death row inmates come up for executions, and would seek commutations of death row sentences through the Florida Cabinet.
He cherishes it as death row inmates may cherish a vision of the Gates of Heaven.

Not exact matches

If ADX is known as the highest security prison for prisoners not sentenced to death, Terre Haute's death row is «the most maximum security of maximum security,» Dunham said.
But as BMO Capital Markets analyst Tim Casey recently pointed out, the industry still appears to be on death row because of the «gradual but unrelenting erosion of revenues, operating margins and valuation multiples.»
Besides, much eyewitness evidence is highly unreliable, as demonstrated by the hundreds of death row inmates who, in recent decades, they're convicted by eyewitness testimony and later exonerated by DNA analysis.
Well if we bring this case to present times, the Egyptians not only the pharaoh were guilty of mistreating, killing and have the Hebrews as slaves, and any court of law Would Have found Them Guilty And Maybe Put Them On Death Row.
«Blasphemy accusations in Pakistan are often used to settle petty vendettas and persecute minority groups,» said Kate Allen, UK Director of Amnesty International in December 2014, as part of a plea for the release of Mohammad Asghar, a 70 - year - old British Muslim grandfather also on death row.
Parents, friends, relatives, clergy and counselors who offer support to the bereaved in the first weeks or months after the death soon begin finding «subtle but effective ways,» as Douglas Manning puts it, «to take grief away» (Don't Take My Grief Away [Harper & Row, 1979], pp. 64 - 65).
I just wonder why they are not fighting just as hard against other forms of «killing humans» like the death penalty (no one can say no innocent people have died on death row) the poor and sick and many elderly being allowed to starve and freeze because the religious right doesn't want to shoulder that burden through their taxes.
United by an «Anabaptist conception of church» and the «scandalous conviction» that «where two or three are gathered together in the name of a redeeming Love that defies the powers of shame and death, the meaning and destiny of all creation are revealed,» this little group ordained Loney as a pastor to the men on Georgia's death row in January of 1985.
And having been born, as persons under the Constitution, they were entitled to at least the same rights as people on death row — due process, equal protection of the law.
The worship leader describes the extraordinary story of a group of death row prisoners, known as the Bali Nine, who sang his well - known song as they were shot
You're sitting on death row even as you type.
As Kohnke left Thompson's house, he noticed the vanity plate on the front of Thompson's Mercedes: DEATH ROW.
The 2nd row shows data on deaths associated with planned OOH births with direct - entry midwives as the planned birth attendants.
especially perhaps the 2nd line... and the line «Before we all go under»... Rows of houses, all bearing down on me I can feel their blue hands touching me All these things into position All these things we'll one day swallow whole And fade out again and fade out This machine will, will not communicate These thoughts and the strain I am under Be a world child, form a circle Before we all go under And fade out again and fade out again Cracked eggs, dead birds Scream as they fight for life I can feel death, can see its beady eyes All these things into position All these things we'll one day swallow whole And fade out again and fade out again Immerse your soul in love IMMERSE YOUR SOUL IN LOVE
«He has previously described the Prime Minister as a dead woman walking who is on death row, and compared the Prime Minister to the living dead in a second - rate horror film.
He has previously described the PM as a «dead man walking» who was «death row» following her failure to win a majority at the election.
Imagine if the legislature decided to abolish the death penalty, not as the culmination of an emotional debate about who we are as a society, but to save the few million bucks a year that the state pays to endlessly defend and prosecute death - row murderers.
Andrew Lansley, long on death row since his health reform train crash, is out — as he should be, a decent man but a bad politician.
It says that if all death - sentenced defendants remained under this sentence indefinitely, as opposed to being taken off death row due to being resentenced to life in prison or their fate being artificially cut off by the study ending, then 4.1 percent of those prisoners would have otherwise been exonerated.
So the Oriental Nicety sat on death row for two months, costing her owner $ 10 million as the value of its steel declined and the company continued to pay its crew.
I personally would expect doctors dealing with patients on death row (sorry I know this sounds extreme) but as someone who's been diagnosed with terminal cancer & only given a short time to live (3 years), I would expect my doctor to be a bit more open to even discussing the possibilities of alternate therapies, but unfortunately my Oncologist won't even consider the options.
On Monday, the death row inmate was back in a Tarrant County courtroom, as his.
On the men's side of the prison -LRB-... as for the «Gentlemen of the Big House»), Gene Raymond has some touching moments with a fellow inmate on death row, played well by Rockliffe Fellowes.
He made his big screen debut in Spike Lee's Crooklyn (1994), and he subsequently appeared in Lee's Clockers (1995), Girl 6 (1996), and Get on the Bus (1996), the last of which cast him as a gay man on his way to the 1995 Million Man March in Washington, D.C.Some of Washington's other memorable credits during the»90s included the Hughes brothers» Dead Presidents (1995), the warmly received ensemble romantic comedy Love Jones (1997), Steven Soderbergh's Out of Sight (1998), in which Washington gave a memorable turn as a scheming con's violent brother - in - law; Warren Beatty's Bulworth (1998), and Clint Eastwood's True Crime (1999), which cast Washington as a man awaiting execution on death row after being falsely accused of murder.
O'Donnell stars as idealistic young attorney Adam Hall who takes on the death row clemency case of his onetime Klansman grandfather, Sam Cayhall (Hackman).
Unfortunately, the film was a relative flop, as were here subsequent 1996 films, Diabolique, a remake of the 1954 French film, and Last Dance, a drama that featured Stone as a woman on death row.
Says the network: «The chilling new series focuses on former FBI agent Ryan Hardy (Emmy Award - nominated actor Kevin Bacon, «X-Men: First Class,» «Frost / Nixon»), who is brought in as a consultant when notorious serial killer Joe Carroll (James Purefoy, «Rome») escapes from death row and embarks on a new killing spree.
Based on a 1955 novel by Pete Doctor, The Paperboy follows a reporter and his brother as they investigate a murder that put the suspect on death row.
Kidman, as previously reported, will be a woman who writes letters to inmates on death row.
As Broomfield passive - aggressively assumes the Bitsy Bloom role, he gives the lie to a multitude of Death Row thrillers that enshrine the field of investigative journalism: In a perpetual state of controlled panic, Broomfield sacrifices whatever skills he has as an interviewer to the obligation of redeeming WuornoAs Broomfield passive - aggressively assumes the Bitsy Bloom role, he gives the lie to a multitude of Death Row thrillers that enshrine the field of investigative journalism: In a perpetual state of controlled panic, Broomfield sacrifices whatever skills he has as an interviewer to the obligation of redeeming Wuornoas an interviewer to the obligation of redeeming Wuornos.
The ever - reliable Kevin Spacey is on his usual consistent form as the title character, a smugger - than - smug academic and anti-death penalty activist who ends up on death row (wouldn'tcha know it!)
As incarcerated serial - killer Henry Lee Bishop (Peter Fonda, Easy Rider, 3:10 to Yuma, Ghost Rider) serves his sentence on Death Row, strange happenings arise in his former home.
After Clyde Shelton's [Gerard Butler] wife and child are both murdered the prosecuting lawyer, Nick Rice [Jamie Foxx], decides to cut a deal with one of the two murderers so as to get a reduced sentence and send the other on death row.
«Reel Chicago» will include Raul Zaritsky and Linda Williams's Maxwell Street Blues (1981), about the musicians who shaped the city's electric - blues sound as they performed in the legendary open - air market; Tom Palazzolo's Chicago, which collects key short works by the veteran city chronicler; The Films of Gordon Weisenborn, a quartet of half - hour educational films by the little - known director; and The People vs. Paul Crump (1965), a profile of the death - row inmate turned novelist that was one of the first films by director William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection).
The relationship between death row criminal Luther Lee Boggs and Agent Scully was reminiscent of Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling, except Boggs was a high strung manic as opposed to the cool intellectual Lecter.
But the film finds its legs in the second half, as Tupac becomes caught up in drama with Death Row Records, Suge Knight and the East Coast / West Coast rap beef.
No doubt Emmerich said when conceiving this movie, «I want to show big scenes of mass chaos and devastation to New York and the national monuments, and will use the global warming premise as a means to make everyone flock to my movies once again to have a front row seat to the deaths of millions of people for their viewing pleasure.»
The movie follows modern day death row inmate Cal Lynch (Michael Fassbender) as he's forced to cybernetically tap into the memories of one of his assassin ancestors in order to find the Apple of Eden so that scheming scientist Alan Rikkin (Jeremy Irons) and his daughter Sophia (Marion Cotillard) may eliminate violence by extinguishing free will on behalf of all humanity.
Herzog found a groove, making films that canvas the things in life that are detrimental to humans and nature alike, such as volcanos, technology, and inmates on death row.
The Night Stalker Director Megan Griffiths and star Lou Diamond Phillips scheduled to attend This penetrating psychological thriller from Seattle's Megan Griffiths (Lucky Them) features a spine - chillingly magnetic performance from Lou Diamond Phillips as death - row inmate Richard Ramirez, California's notorious serial killer.
That was followed by Sundance entrant «Everything Put Together» in 2000, before he broke through with «Monster's Ball,» a bleak drama about the romance between a death row inmate's widow and a racist prison guard that won Halle Berry an Oscar, and proved commercially popular as a result.
As Det. Russell Poole (Jimmi Simpson) delves ever - deeper into these murky waters in the late «90s, he comes across an array of suspicious connections between L.A. gangs, Death Row Records and his own department.
But no matter how much critical love this third season — which saw Peter Sarsgaard join the cast as an inmate on death row — received, the viewers still weren't there.
As a young lawyer defending poor inmates on Alabama's death row, Stevenson uncovers unconscionable flaws in the criminal justice system — racial bias, abuse of power, excessive punishment, denied access to legal counsel — concluding that «the opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice.»
According to publishing copy from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, The Ask by Sam Lipsyte will cover themes such as «work, war, sex, class, child rearing, romantic comedies, Benjamin Franklin, cooking shows on death row and the eroticization of chicken wire.»
As Helmuth Hübener, 17, sits on death row, a series of flashbacks retraces his childhood in Hamburg during Hitler's rise to power.
As a young Harvard law student testing himself in an internship in Georgia, Stevenson visited death - row inmates and saw firsthand the injustices suffered by the poor and disadvantaged, how too many had been railroaded into convictions with inadequate legal representation.
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