Word: jails
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...Babysitting a convicted murderer for the rest of his life by locking him in jail is neither justice nor a good use of taxpayer money. Consider the average 12 years of appeals for death-row inmates. Those years are a money machine for lawyers and end only at the execution. Wilbur F. Poppe, Denton, Texas...
...related suicide in The Client opposite Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones. That mature, soulful performance was, sadly, the peak of actor Brad Renfro's career. Though he went on to roles in Sleepers and Ghost World, he was battling drug addiction and in 2006 spent 10 days in jail for drunk driving and attempted heroin possession. His death is under investigation...
Pring-Wilson was convicted of manslaughter in October 2004 and sentenced to six to eight years in jail. In 2005, Pring-Wilson was granted a retrial after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that evidence of a victim's violent history could be used in self-defense cases...
What do you think Helene would say are her strong points? If she was sober long enough to answer, I think she thinks she is smart. It's why she doesn't help the police - if she told the whole story she'd be in jail. To her, that's smart, even if the child is in danger. She knows how to survive in a world without a man. Without love. I don't think she trusts love so is happier without it. She knows she's funny...
...reads, it doesn't feel very redemptive. It's not a big gotcha kind of film. Arthur dies. I don't get a job. If you made It's A Wonderful Life today, they'd have to haul Lionel Barrymore off at the end and put him in jail. That's how the bad guy has to get got. The reason that movie's a perfect film is because the redemption comes through the fact that Jimmy Stewart gets to go home to his family and say, hey, you know what, living well is the greatest revenge. In this film...