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From all points on the political spectrum, and from various campuses across the country, Take Back the Night has been described as more "poignant" when it follows recent instances of campus women failing to convict their alleged rapists. The audience becomes it own self-empowered judge and jury, supporting the words of whomever is brave enough to take, enforcing what ever conviction...
...deputy operations chief, appeared in a doorway and intoned, "Warden, you may proceed." A microphone was lowered and the condemned man offered a brief prayer as his last statement. Then the executioner, hidden behind a one-way mirror, released the deadly chemicals through two plastic tubes into the convict's forearms. In 30 seconds, Beavers grunted, coughed and lost consciousness. Six minutes later, Dr. Darryl Wells, a local emergency-room physician, stepped forward to pronounce him dead. As the witnesses were whisked off, morticians loaded the body into a black Astro van and carted it away into the night...
Hance became the 231st convict to be executed since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. But this execution raised more disturbing questions than most. For one thing, a woman who was among the 12 jurors to sentence Hance to death in 1984 has sworn that she never concurred in the supposedly unanimous vote. There is also jolting evidence that race prejudice played a central role in the jury's deliberations. Finally, Hance, a black former Marine who was found guilty of bludgeoning to death two prostitutes in 1978, may have been mildly retarded. Douglas Pullen, a prosecutor...
Rehabilitation can work. Everyone changes in time. The trick is to influence the direction that change takes. The problem with prisons is that they don't do more to rehabilitate those confined in them. The convict who enters prison illiterate will probably leave the same way. Most convicts want to be better than they are, but education is not a priority. This prison houses 4,600 men and offers academic training to 240, vocational training to a like number. Perhaps it doesn't matter. About 90% of the men here may never leave this prison alive...
...McCoy, a seasoned hitman, and Kim Basinger as wife and partner-in-crime, Carol. We meet the duo coolly clad with dark shades, shooting targets in the desert, cavalierly zipping away in their white convertible to take on a new contract. The job is the get a convict out of prison and fly him back to Mexico. Doc is betrayed by Rudy (Michael Madsen), who leaves him stranded after the police are called on to the scene. Carol seeks the help of Benyon (James Woods),and offers Doc's services in return for his freedom. Benyon agrees, although Carol must...