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Simon Walter Blackburn FBA (born 12 July 1944) is an English academic philosopher known for his work in metaethics, where he defends quasi-realism, and in the philosophy of language. More recently, he has gained a large general audience from his efforts to popularise philosophy .
Follows the case of death row inmate Daniel Lee Lopez, who was convicted of murdering a Corpus Christi city police officer by hitting him with his SUV as he was trying to evade capture following a routine traffic stop. The programme follows, Lopez, his family and city officials in the weeks and months leading up to and after his execution.
Universal Pictures Content Group and Passion Pictures have wrapped on a new documentary about the nun who inspired 1995 Oscar-winning hit “Dead Man Walking,” Variety can exclusively confirm.
After Innocence is a 2005 American documentary film about men who were exonerated from death row by DNA evidence.Directed by Jessica Sanders, the film won the Special Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.
Sainsbury described the book as well-written, but criticized Blackburn's discussion of knowledge. [3] The writer Peter Edidin wrote in The New York Times that the book "found a sizable audience", noting that more than 30,000 hardcover copies had been sold and that "Oxford has asked Mr. Blackburn to follow up with Being Good, a guide to the ...
The third, "Working", discusses the processes the authors used to get their research material, [5] and ethics-based arguments regarding the death penalty. [2] The book includes a DVD containing a 1979 documentary, [2] Death Row, including interviews of Ellis Unit capital punishment prisoners, made by the authors. Pike called it "exceptional".
The Fear of 13 is a 2015 British documentary film by David Sington. [1] It tells the story of the American, Nick Yarris, who was convicted and sentenced to capital punishment for a 1981 kidnapping, rape and murder, and spent 22 years on death row in Pennsylvania. Yarris was released in 2004 when DNA evidence established his innocence. [2]
In 2001, Savidge wrote and produced Welcome to Death Row, a documentary about Death Row Records, which was later turned into a book of the same name. [2] He is known for his works in the restored version of The Harder They Come (restored in 2006) and Straight Outta Compton (2015), for which he co-wrote the original draft of the screenplay and also served as one of its executive producers.