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Title: Tough Subject, Great Movie
Review: There are a few fairly recent movies about the death penalty--Dead Man Walking, The Green Mile, The Life of David Gaye. To me, this one gives us more insight into all the appeals etc that lead up to an execution. I was interested to find out that the actual gas chamber at Parchman, Mississippi, was used in the chamber scenes of the movie. It has an unusual plot, in that a Klan killing from the 1960's took this long to come to execution. Murder should never be considered a cultural phenomenon, but the book/movie point out that Klan killings, at this point in our history, were not unusual. This role was so different for Gene Hackman, The Runaway Jury. I've become a big fan of all of Grisham's books and movies. I also enjoy them because they are usually set in/around the Memphis area (since I lived in that area when I was in the Air Force 20 years ago).
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