The Life of David Gale


Did anyone else think this was eerily similar to the life of David Gale? Well not completely, but certain parts

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Not at all. Life of David Gale was a piece of trash propaganda piece. This movie, although centering on a death row inmate, does not take a political stance but is simply a mystery/thriller. Nothing like Life of David Gale.

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I find a resembles as well...
Both of the movies are about showing that there shouldn't be a thing as a death sentence, since the law system isn't perfect.
There have certainly been people who have been wrongfully accused and killed by this system...

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Hey jadirajan:
Show me where just one person has been "killed by this system" by being wrongly accused. No one anti-death penalty activist can point to anyone being executed while being innocent. You can email me at movieguru11 at yahoo dot com -- and I'll mail you $100 if you can show me just one person executed when innocent -- with valid evidence to your whacked out claim.

You can't so, don't make blanket statements that are ignorant at best and ultra-ignorant at worse.

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I am pro-death penalty, but I have 2 names for you (well, maybe a 3rd too)

Joe Hill
Jesse Tafero
Barbara Graham (from what I have read, wrong place, wrong time--she did not do the murder)

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I suppose you don't read or watch tv; there are at least 123 people who've been on death row and released because they were innocent.

Here's the list, troll:

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid=6&did=110

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I am actually sure that the poster knows that info. The poster wanted people to show an actual person who had been executed.

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Just because these people were pardoned, it does not mean that they were actually innocent. These numbers include accomplices and others who were not proven guity; they were exonerated for various other reasons. They may not have been the triggerman, but that does not mean they are innocent - or at least not absolutely innocent. This is a deception of the media and the anti-death penalty people. Also, not all those exonerations were death row exonerations, some were prison exonerations. Go to http://www.prodeathpenalty.com/Innocence.htm

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If you're too lazy to read the link to the info that I posted, why did you bother responding, a$$hole?


Eddie: "You just broke his ankle, Jack!"
Jack: "He shouldn't have been playing with adults." ii.iv

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lol, I think you're bankrupt... death penalty is a banal thing.. glad I'm dutch and we have a civilized law system.

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It reminded me more of the Andrew Klaven book, "True Crime". The movie of the same name was crap but the book was pretty good.

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Before the death penalty was abolished in the UK, there were several well-documented miscarriages of justice, including that of Timothy Evans, who was hanged in 1950 for the murder of his wife. Only later was he found to be innocent when the real murderer, John Reginald Christie, was arrested for her murder and that of several other women.

You can read about the case at:
http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/history/christie/trial_10.html

Or watch the movie 10, Rillington Place, starring John Hurt and Richard Attenborough.

There was also Derek Bentley, hanged for a murder that was clearly not committed by him but by his partner-in-crime. Christopher Ecclestone stars in a movie based on the case, Let Him Have It. You can read the details here on IMDb

There have been several equally well-documented cases of people found innocent and released from jail many years after being wrongfully convicted. For an example, watch In the Name of the Father, starring Daniel Day Lewis, which was based on real life.

OK, so it's a different system from that in the US, but this is just to illustrate that people do get executed for crimes they didn't commit. I'd be very surprised if something similar hadn't happened in the US.



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I definitely got to remember The Life of David Gale while watching this movie. Both were to me pretty strong statements against the death penalty.

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I thought it had a similar story line but I thought life of David gale was way more tense and powerful...

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