Execution of Justice
Execution of Justice ★★ 1999 (R)
Emily Mann's play focused on the 1978 voluntary manslaughter verdict in the trial of city supervisor Dan White for the deaths of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone (Young) and openly gay elected official Harvey Milk (Coyote). You may remember the infamous “Twinkie Defense.” This sporadically compelling cable docudrama delves into the mind of White (Daly) himself. 103m/C VHS . Timothy Daly, Peter Coyote, Stephen Young, Amy Van Nostrand, Tyne Daly, Khalil Kain, Frank Pellegrino, Shannon Hile; D: Leon Ichaso; W: Michael Butler; C: Claudio Chea. CABLE
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Defendants: Abraham Ruef and Eugene E. Schmitz
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In his three decades as a lawmaker and justice, Edward Douglass White left a powerful and sometimes con…
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