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1 online resource (82 min.) |
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Criminal justice and public safety in video |
| Summary |
Each year around 50 people are executed in the US. The vast majority of executions take place in Texas by lethal injection. Since 1997 Karl Chamberlain has been on death row in Texas because he raped and murdered a 30-year-old woman in her apartment in Dallas in 1991. This video follows Karl's mother Muina, an old hippie and now a practicing Muslim, who hopes that her prayers will save her son's life as she tries to understand what turned her once sweet little son into a violent criminal. She shares her concerns with a group of women, pen pals of Karl who in turn have developed boyfriend-like relationship with the condemned man on death row. For Muina, it is not just about Karl's life but also her own. The pending execution is the culmination of a turbulent life with nine children, rape and suicide attempts. Last time she visited her son on death row, it was so hard on her that she tried to take her own life. Her friends now fear that if Karl is not pardoned, this execution might lead her to attempt suicide again. On Mother's Day 2008, she receives notification that an execution date has been set! |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed Jul. 13, 2012) |
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This edition in English |
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Mothers of criminals.
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Capital punishment -- Texas
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Death row -- Texas
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Death row inmates -- Texas
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Capital punishment.
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Death row.
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Death row inmates.
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Mothers of criminals.
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Texas.
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Documentary films.
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Nonfiction television programs.
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Nonfiction television programs.
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Documentary films.
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Émissions télévisées autres que de fiction.
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Documentaires.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Martensen-Larsen, Martin.
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Sundstrom, Susanne, producer.
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