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
Subjects
- Capital punishment (50)
- Sentences (Criminal procedure) (10)
- Bible and law (1)
- Fundamentalism (10)
- Trials (Murder) (47)
Contributor
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
2006
Database
Alexander Street
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