Kevin Bacon stars in violent "Death Sentence"
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NEW YORK  - Crime rates might be dropping nationwide, but you wouldn't know from the latest wave of vigilante-themed films.
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Variety - THERE'S A SUDDEN abundance of movies out there focusing on edgy individuals -- Kerry, Bush, Clinton et al. -- but the film that may provoke the noisiest reaction is about someone who's been dead 50 years.
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Blood-and-guts director Quentin Tarantino may be going soft. The "Kill Bill" and "Pulp Fiction" director will make a cameo appearance in a new ABC-TV movie featuring the Muppets and based on the classic tale "The Wizard of Oz," ABC announced Thursday.
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HBOâs movie on one of Britainâs most notorious serial killers is a chilling, but also strangely affecting portrait of her bizarre 30-year friendship with an aristocrat.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio  - The state of Ohio on Thursday put to death a man who killed his prison cellmate, after executioners worked for more than an hour to find the right veins in which to inject lethal chemicals.
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On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up the Christopher Simmons case and consider a question that could affect 73 death-row inmates across the nation who committed their crimes before age 18: whether executing such inmates amounts to "cruel and unusual punishment," which is forbidden by the U.S. Constitution's Eighth Amendment.
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LOS ANGELES  - Jack Kevorkian, the advocate of doctor-assisted suicide who spent eight years in prison for second-degree murder, is cooperating with HBO Films for a movie about his controversial practices.
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In The Woodsman, Kevin Bacon is a parent's worst nightmare. But he dreams of a better kind of life
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A murderer was scheduled to die Thursday in what would be the nation's first execution since the day the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider whether lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment.
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A Texas man scheduled to be executed on Tuesday wants to die laughing.
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Oklahoma is set to execute a convicted murderer by lethal injection on Tuesday who is terminally ill with cancer and is expected to die in a few months' time anyway.
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A man who shot and seriously injured a policeman has his 10-year sentence increased to life imprisonment.
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas  - A Texas man scheduled to be executed on Tuesday wants to die laughing.
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The actor has begun shooting for his first film after being released from jail.
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SAN QUENTIN, Calif.  - Shortly after the gate  slammed shut leading to aging San Quentin prison's cells  housing the most dangerous murderers already condemned to die,  the warden issued a stark warning.
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The actor faces three years in jail. Do you think his career is over?
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ÂLetÂs Go to PrisonÂ is a sly, very funny comedy that stays admirably deadpan every time you think itÂs about to veer into gross-out territory.