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July 30, 2004
Jury of One
The documentary Deadline: The Movie just finished running on Dateline NBC.
With ads.
"Jarring" doesn't begin to cover it. But that's the case even when the discussion isn't about race, poverty, political corruption, death and other light topics, I suppose. And this did give the film a larger audience than it would otherwise receive.
Not sure if you need a registration to read the Trib's series, Failure of the death penalty in Illinois, but since the writers, Ken Armstrong and Steve Mills, appeared frequently in the film, along with Cornelia Grumman, who "won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing for a series of editorials on Illinois' troubled death penalty system," it's worth a look, if you wanted to know more.
Also, those are journalists. The gentleman currently interviewing former Governor Ryan on The Abrams Report, Dan Abrams?
Who started off by mispronouncing Kankakee?
And, if I heard right, announced that Des Moines is in Illinois?
And let a guest, Joshua Marquis, say (paraphrasing) that the number of innocent people on death row is very, very small? Without asking, "Don't you think that's too many. . . dumbass?"
Not so much a journalist. Or perhaps I have a mistaken definition of the word.
Update: There's an open thread for discussion of the film, over at their brand-new blog,
Also, Abrams did get around to asking Mr. Marquis about that whole executing someone who was wrongfully convicted thing. This has never, ever happened, apparently, but someone will die because of Ryan's decision to commute sentences. Definitely.
Scott Turow jumped on that one.
Then this. . . creature from Texas named Kim Ogg jumped on. . . no, I'm not making this up.
Posted by Aaron at July 30, 2004 09:22 PM
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