The Walking Dead

[Aragorn]

In 1936 Boris Karloff starred in a movie titled "The Walking Dead". The plot involves a man who is falsely accused of murdering a judge. He is convicted largely because the couple who could prove his innocence is afraid to testify, for fear of retaliation from the criminals who really did it. Boris is in the chair when they have an attack of conscience, but by the time the governor finds out and calls the prison it is too late. Boris has been electrocuted.

Fortunately for Boris they get their doctor to revive him, although he is not the same man. His supposed physiologic trauma may be psychologic, but as he recalls more and more who he is and what has happened to him, he begins to take revenge on everyone who convicted and executed him.

I'm watching this now and don't know how it ends. I was also reading the comics, with lots of Halloween themes. Then it came to me. This 73 year old movie should be remade, and set in Texas. It is just too close in theme and plot to apparent wrongful executions as well as proved wrongful convictions. Imagine, with all the potential suspects in the state, if witnesses and prosecutors from some of these cases started dropping off left and right. It could be bigger than "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". Maybe call it "The Texas Chaingang Redemption". Of course in today's cinema it would be a lot more gory and bloody than in 1936, no doubt.

But I wouldn't pay to see it.

[Aragorn]

1. UTArlington exonerees conference

from the FW Star Telegram:
http://www.star-telegram.com/804/story/1725589.html

[sonias]

2. Thanks for that link - great article

ARLINGTON — During a prolonged standing ovation, the Texas exonerees were brought forward one by one. By the time the introductions were done, 14 men and one woman, each having served years in prison for crimes they did not commit, stood together on a stage at the University of Texas at Arlington.

"On this panel there is 200 years of incarceration," one of them, Anthony Robinson, told a large crowd of students, educators, relatives and government officials. "Two hundred years of suffering. Two hundred years of ignoring a problem that is screaming to be dealt with.

"You have a chance to make a phenomenal difference," said Robinson, who was wrongly convicted of rape. "This is a cause."

The emotional gathering of exonerees, one of the largest since wrongful convictions began making national headlines several years ago, headlined a daylong conference Friday sponsored by the UTA School of Social Work. Also on the program was the brother of Fort Worth’s Timothy Cole, who died in prison after being convicted of a rape he didn’t commit. A panel of criminal justice experts concluded the day.

For all the wrongly convicted in our broken justice system - shine the light in those dark places. This is a cause for justice.

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Sonia