Øje for øje. An eye for an eye

Description

A Danish television documentary about the sentencing of Oliver Khristian to death for a murder he committed in Nacodoches, Texas. Members of the jury took the bible into the deliberation room and consulted it in order to reach their verdict. Khristian, his attorney, his parents, a juror, clergy people, reporters and others in Nacodoches present through their interviews a picture of the town and the pervasiveness of the fundamentalist influence there.

Runtime

51 min

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Geography

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Date of Publication

2006

Database

Alexander Street

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