Sister Helen Prejan is an advocate against the Death Penalty. I would suggest that you purchase, and read the book 📕 entitled ‘Until I Could Be Sure;’ the book was written by former Illinois Governor George Ryan.
The fact that it shows the scene of the crime along with the execution makes this scene really effective. It reminds us why he's in this spot in the first place.
Sister Helen Préjean was the only one who could have him eventually admit his guilt and ask not for mercy but for forgiveness. Only the parents can decide. But Sister Préjean acted as a true Christian, showing compassion to all till the very end.
Susan's roll was based on fact. I saw an interview that profiled the work of this nun who was the spiritual guider to death row inmates...she witnessed several executions. This was such a powerful roll Susan played...hence the Oscar she won. Incredible.
The parents had a very right to be angry even wish for vengeance and have complete resentment toward Penn’s character and the other man. It’s difficult to forgive someone for acts like theses.
@@orlandobabeI wonder when victims witness the execution of the convicted murderer, if they actually feel any sort of closure. It’s not like once the execution is over that anything in their life really changes, they still lost a loved one, but now another family has lost a loved one.
Cutting between his execution and his murder of the teens--and having their ghosts appear in the window was very effective. No matter how genuinely sorry he is for what he's done, it doesn't undo it.
Exactly. Despite the fact that we gradually see him as a human being who did a terrible deed, rather than as a monster, at the same time, it doesn't allow us to forget the crime. And it cuts to the two teens dead, and now, another who is dead. Simply lets us decide what we will.
Just remember that his death was much more humane and clinical than the death of the person he killed. He got to make a last statement and eat a special last meal. He also got to mentally and spiritually prepare to die. His victim got none of that.
isn't this obfuscation. he was incarcerated. he was never going to escape. if you're a vengeful person and like seeing people die, okay, fine. just don't pretend that death penalty has anything to do with justice
the reason for six is because they want to make sure the person actually dies. they dont want him "half-dead" in there words. there is always more than needed just in case.
Six vials were used, three of which were saline used for flushing the intravenous line after the delivery of each of the three chemicals. This is done to prevent coagulation.
@@louisegough8644 No doubt. He was a filthy animal completely incapable of remote. Elmo Patrick Sonnier, however, was reportedly truly remorseful. The Poncelot character was based on both: Sonnier’s crimes and Willie’s demeanor and appearance.
If I am correct as it shows at 6:28 two different officers flipping a switch to start the flow of the lethal chemicals, only one switch actually activates those, and the other administers harmless saline. I also remember reading that a computer erases the identity of which switch actually did it so they can't look it up. Similar to death by firing squad, how one executioner has a blank in his rifle. I forget the psychological term for it but it places doubt in the mind of those who fire/press buttons that "maybe I didn't kill him."
Louisiana, in actuality, never used a machine for administering lethal injections. It was manually delivered. Only Missouri and Illinois ever used a lethal injection machine and both states abandoned it in favor of manual delivery after relatively few executions using the machine.
@@justinm1200 Many people only revel in Matthew being executed, despite the movie trying to accomplish much more than simply "seeing the bad guy get what's coming to him." It's about showing both sides of the death penalty argument, showing how Matthew's family will be impacted by his death, while also showing how his crimes scarred the families of his victims, asking the viewer to come to their own conclusion on whether or not he deserves to die. But, it's also about recognizing that, even if you believe Matthew deserves to die, you first need to accept that you will be taking the life of a human being who can laugh, cry, and feel like everyone else. We call people like Matthew "monsters" to make it easier to flip the switch when it comes time to end his life, but deciding whether or not to execute someone should not be an easy decision. It needs to be something that we delve deep into and analyze to make sure that death is the "right" decision. The point of the movie is not to forgive Matthew, or exonerate him, or even tell you that the death penalty is definitively right or wrong. It's simply about trying to humanize Matthew and anyone else who faces execution.
Remember that this movie is not forcing the audience to believe that Poncelet deserves clemency. It is clearly established that what he did was evil. The point is, throughout Poncelet did not want to own up to what he did. He was defiant. He wanted more sand in his hour glass. He has been blaming everyone else but himself. But through a little faith and love, he does the right thing. HE OWNS UP to his crime, and asks for forgiveness. The movie does not make Poncelet a redeemable character, but rather a repentant one.
But he was a human, that's the point. That a human can do something so vile and evil and still be redeemed. The film shows both sides to the argument so well, the pain of the family and their destruction over the loss of a child. The family of the murderer who suffer through no fault of their own. And that this woman went into the belly of the beast to try and find some humanity in this monster. Personally speaking, death was to good for him. And yet envy her compassion for him at the same time.
I wish they would stop that in movies. They don't do that in real life. There is no point, other then that's what they do in the movies. Something like 99% don't struggle or put up any form of struggle. They have accepted it and are in a way relieved. Death house is quiet. Deathly quiet to use a fraise.
Mike Rieck Yes it was dramatic license. In actuality, condemned inmates in Louisiana whether they were executed by electric chair or lethal injection, would give their final remarks from a small podium mounted at the front of the execution chamber. They were placed on the gurney in a vertical standing position and lowered to a horizontal position.
@@willandrews9741 robbins mentions it in the director commentary. He says they weren't trying to be too dramatic, that Louisiana actually does (or did in 96) the "crucifixion"
Not only that, it's a Joanna Vark style exicution, like the Potassium chloride hit's the vains, it burns all the way to the heart, that's the shit that kills a person, stop there heart, you see, the first and second drug's only sedated you, so you don't have to witness a horrific seen,so it looks Humane, but it's not and that's why all the drug companies, will not sell it or the drugs for that purpose, and the United Nations has band this ack of legal murder, so that's what they say, if that was me, I would pick the electric chair because Once they throw the switch, it's like being shot in the head, It's instant death.
We just finished this movie in my sociology class and about half the class was bawling their eyes out cx I didn’t cry but this movie made me emotional inside, this scene was so intense
There is evidence to suggest that a prisoner undergoing lethal injection will experiance excruciating pain, but will be unable to express it due to the injection of sodium pentathol, which paralyzes the prisoner.
@@sistahlamb ok so shall we just go back to burning people alive like we did in the middle ages?? What a stupid comment. Let's hope you never get falsely accused of murder in one of the southern states
Absolutely. So bloody frightening. I never understand why if they must execute people (and I don't think they should) they don't simply use a firing squad
When the one getting executed told the nun he loves her I think like maybe in a mother son way or something not sure. I can't really say where I stand on the death sentence and on how its done.
I once asked a pastor at a church a question i asked if your 10 year daughter was raped a murdered and the guy you knew and everybody knew did it but nobody could proof it and he was set free and he walked in your church the next day and got face to face with you and said Please forgive me then you look down and theres a bible and a gun which one would you pick up? He paused for about ten seconds and said id pick up the gun a blow his head off but i said thou shall not kill right? He had no more words for me so to the people that are not for the death penalty maybe you should walk in the victims familys shoes for once and imagine if somebody murdered your child or a family member that you loved then i think you all would change your minds
Apparently it was a deliberate choice by Tim Robbins. People seem to think a lethal injection is so much more humane and easier than the electric chair - they intended to show it makes no difference - killing is wrong.
@@fooledbyrandom991 Additionally, Poncelet's character is actually a synthesis of two different inmates Prejean assisted. The film clearly wanted to avoid overcomplicating a general truth about what these criminals were like and how their relationship was with Prejean.
American movies tend to get a long wrong when it comes to incarceration and the death penalty. In Shawshawk Redemption they even have prisoners waiting 20+ years to even get a parole hearing when the average time served in the era this took place was seven years. Almost nobody "got old" in prison, since parole came very quick for all but a small handful of lifers -- mostly those convicted of several murders, or those with mental illnesses that make them act dangerously. As for this film, which takes place in Louisiana, not only did they get the execution method wrong, they also got it wrong for The Green Mile -- also in Louisiana. In 1935, the official method of execution in Louisiana was hanging -- not electrocution. Electrocution would not be introduced to the state until the 1940s.
I disagree. You're normally spared death if you confess, which he did. He also repented and continued his friendship with sister Helen when he realised she couldn't save his life. I don't agree with the death penalty. He could have been useful to other prisoners as he could have counselled them into confessing their guilt and encouraged an interest in religion. I'm an atheist and even I can see that
@@chloephillips1381 Are you joking? He could have counseled other prisoners? Why should he get to counsel other prisoners when he killed somebody who doesn't get to have any type of a life because they're dead. It's called an eye for an eye and his death was more humane and clinical than the person he killed. He got to make a last statement and eat a last special meal. He also got to mentally and spiritually prepare to die. His victim got none of that. Also in one of your other comments you said this film made you sympathize with the rapist (if not slightly more) as much as the victims. Wow! You say you're an atheist so I'm also assuming you're a liberal and you type of people are just so extremely soft and naive.
I once read a story where a 12 year old girl was raped and killed by a man he was convicted and sentenced to death for it years passed by and the parents of the little girl waited and waited for justice and grieved everyday but it never came because the guy who murdered their daughter out lived both the mother and father on death row using his appeals the parents died broken the man was put to death later on but the point here is the death penalty isnt a deterent anymore we need a system put into place that says if your found guilty of murder and sentenced to death you get no appeals and your death warrent is signed right away and you would be put to death within days not years they make to many deals with these monsters to avoid the death penalty take one long look at chris watts and tell me if the death penalty works!!
No they don't. But at the Florida State Prison in Starke, that phrase is said by corrections officers when they are escorting a condemned inmate through the central corridor to and from the administration office.
@@anastasiaugwu1005 No, it is said to get all the other inmates to get out of the way and get to the sides of the corridor as the guards escort the condemned inmate.
R. Lee Ermey is such an underrated actor. I always tear up at his face during the execution scene - he wants Poncelet punished, but he seems like he's also wondering, "Am I doing the right thing in being here?"
(Continuing my last post)--Most likely, he urinated and defecated on himself when he died, which explains that line, "A grown man going to his death in a DIAPER AND SLIPPERS!!"
Great movie 🎥👍👍 But to be real and honest there are a few mistakes they did make My source (Judgement at midnight-Vimeo) 1)In Louisiana the final meal is not eaten in the cell but rather in the lobby (feet away from the death chamber-creepy right) 2)The last words are spoken from a podium that is located right by the door inside the death chamber 3) Louisiana dose not lift the gurney up, Nor is the final words spoken in that position but rather on the podium (example #2) 4) the seat belt straps are not the style that Louisiana uses to hold down the condemned Imamate during the execution, nor is the arm restraints (it’s not a multi layered strap) But rather a single arm restraint and an additional zip tie restraint 5) the person being executed would have a white sheet covering them up from their feet all the way up to their chest 6) the chest restraints are at the beginning put on the inmate in the movie but when the execution is completed they mystery disappear 7) the State of Louisiana does not use Fred Lucher‘s lethal injection machine but rather does it manually hiding behind the wall where the inmates head is located A few simple errors done by Hollywood But overall a GREAT Movie 👍😀 Check out (Judgement at Midnight)and see for yourself
Jacobb C it would be funny if a death row inmate about executed got so scared they'd die of a heart attack or stroke beforehand and beat the state at their game
I watched the start of this film about 15 years ago, and I turned it off, thinking it was too melodramatic and preachy. This clip was "recommended" to me and I laughed involuntarily as I realised I was right all those years ago and was glad that I didn't waste two hours watching the film and just spent ten seeing the end and commenting on it.
@@jtfourlife it's based on a book sister Helen Prejean (Susan Surandon) wrote. The actual movie is based in the case of Robert Lee Willie & Joseph Vaccaro who abducted, raped & murdered an 18 year old girl named Faith Hatheway. They were sentenced to death for Faith Hatheway murder but they also committed the crime scene in the film. They attacked a couple Mark Brewster (20) & his 17 year old girlfriend Debbie Cuevas, they raped Debbie & shot & stabbed Mark. Believing he was dead they dropped off Debbie after visiting a friend. Mark Brewster survived the attack but was paralyzed from the waist down. Once again, he was sentenced to death for the Faith Hatheway murder but the movie used the Brewster & Cuevas attack as the reason for him receiving death penalty. The film is accurate in pretty much every other aspect, Sister Prejean was his spiritual advisor up until his execution & he showed remorse for his actions. Although he showed remorse he reportedly accepted his death & hoped his death would ease the Hatheways pain. He deserved what he got 100%. I believe in death penalty, & he deserved it after the heinous crimes he committed.
Well, Actually @JohnTheBigAss, The whole time, he was just laying there knocked unconscious by the first 2 drugs. He died after the last drug was minsistered into him and he took his last puff. - Dwight
He brutally raped and tortured and murdered a teen girl and murdered a teen boy Good on him for remorse But execute him! His death is more than justified
Well, @Timothy Costorf, We can talk about who or what deserves an Oscar all that we want to. But Unfortunatly, The Oscars are basically acting school awards. It doesn`t always matter what or whom we the fans think that deserves the Oscars, It is what the heads of the National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences think that decides what and whom deserves the Oscars. - Dwight
The victims spirits in this scene watching Poncelet die is somewhat a relief. But Poncelets execution doesn't even come close to how these 2 poor kids were killed...so violently and inhumane. The law should be an "eye for an eye."
It's also sickening to know, people who get the death penalty have done things to deserve it. Like raping little children, burning bodies to hide evidence. If you take the freedoms of someone else, yours should be too.
And they clearly deserve the death penalty for those heinous acts!! Sickening!! They ruin those poor innocent childrens lives forever so their life should end too!!!
+kathy heitchue Actually, the gurney used for lethal injection executions in Louisiana does have seat belt style restraints on it. However, the scene where Matthew Poncelet is asked to give his final words while strapped to the gurney fixed in the vertical position is artistic license. In actuality, condemned inmates in Louisiana give their final words prior to being strapped to the gurney from a podium located in the corner of the execution chamber.
It's literally sickens me how people can feel sorry for these monsters. I bet if it were to happen to someone they love they wouldn't be so quick to defend them. What they did to that girl is absolutely vile! And they should have been killed the same way.
No one defends what these people do and no one opposes the death penalty because they believe the murderer has more rights then the victim. For myself, I will quote the film: “killing is wrong”. I understand the desire and impulse to wreck the most horrific punishment possible on those that harm you and your loved ones. But, that is not justice and any society operating on those principles would fall apart. I don’t believe in the death penalty because ultimately it does nothing - no one is brought back and no one is deterred (most murders are crimes of passion with little thought to consequences). All it does ultimately is appeal to the basest need to inflict pain for pain caused and I think we can be better then that.
+thegorn68 actor Scott Wilson who plays the prison minister, portrayed condemned murderer Dick Hickok in the 1967 film "In Cold Blood". Hickok was hanged along with Perry Smith at the end of that film which was based upon the famous Truman Capote novel about four Kansas murders.
First things first: It's so impressive how strong Susan Sarandon's character is! Now, I come from a country that declared the death penalty illegal over a hundred years ago, just as the majority of civilized countries have by now except for (a number of) the United States, because the entire juridical system is based by money and revenge. I got a strong sense of justice. I despise Sean Penn's character Poncelet for what he did to those poor teenagers and I can't imagine how vengeful I'd feel as a family member! But this right here is society taking revenge. And that may seem similar, but it's not, because the idea of law and order is that society has to be at least better than its worst perp (in this case, better than a despicable rapist, torturer and killer)! But let's say, just for argument's sake, that I consider death penalty a fair sentence if the offense was as extreme as this. You can't revive a dead (wo)man, right? Therefore, practicing the death sentence would require the most flawless of judiciaries. An impeccable system of law and order with as little political or media influence as possible. That is definitely not the case in the US! The dark figures of falsely accused/convicted people in US prisons in comparison to other first-world countries are nothing short of gut-wrenching ...not to mention the circumstances under which American immates seem to live every day. That's nowhere near social rehabilitation or justice, it's just social revenge! It's like Poncelet's lawyer says in the hearing: No rich (wo)man has ever seen the inside of the death row. At least this poor (💰) perp actually committed his crimes, but the fact that he gets the lethal injection while his partner who initiated it all gets to live, just because he happened to get better legal council (not some tax attorney who'd never defended an accused manslaughterer before)? - You can't tell me that's justice! And the fact that some governor orders the fast-tracking of someone's execution because his re-election campaign profits from it? - no words! Just to be clear, I don't agree with a governor's liberty to amnesty a convicted perp either. The US are allowing for sth. that monarchs in Europe could do, but was luckily declared unconstitutional when they stopped being heads of government. Governors in the so-called land of the free seem have the status of monarchs here. How can America even speak of separation of powers when they're such an illusion? 😮 Bottom line, I'm not against the death penalty because I think those men deserve to live. I'm against it because the few countries in this world that still practice this legalized murder include some of the most unfair judicairies. I'm not at all saying my country's system is flawless, I'm just glad to live in a modern constitutional democracy that doesn't pretend to work in such impeccable ways.
It is used in Florida State Prison whenever a condemned man is out of the death row unit being escorted to the warden’s office elsewhere in the prison. Other I inmates know that they must get their backs up against the wall of the corridor and clear a path for the guards escorting the restrained condemned inmate.
Daniel, I asked that question on another posting of this video, and was told that at the moment of death, all his muscles relaxed, including those controlling his eyes and bladder (which explains why his eyes open--the muscles keeping them closed relaxed and they opened). He also, most likely, urinated and defecated all over himself. (Which is why he complained about "a grown man going to his death in a diaper and slippers!!") :)
This just goes to show the power that doctors and even non medical professionals such as executioners have, moral of the story don’t do anything stupid
I thought the cry of "Dead Man Walking" was something that only the likes of Percy Wetmore shouted. Must be terryfying to hear that and knowing that the guard is referring to you. Juzt as it was terryfying for the victims when Poncelet appeared.
9:52... I have no idea why but I used to get so spooked out (and still do from time to time) when he's finally dead and opens his eyes... Anyone else? Or am I just a wimp lol
Killers aren't innocent. They're killers. In prison they have sex, make jokes, have fun...no one that can take away a life for no reason deserves to have those liberties.
The music and the showing of his crimes are judgement and damnation that his sin is unforgivable and there for is damned for hell no repentance can save him it's too late
@KristiA72 it isn't really a song, its an ALAAP by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; the legendary Pakistan Qawwal... Man people only associate us with terrorism now, Miss you Nusrat :(
Cold blood killers get to know what it feels like, those final moments of fear. Justice in it's purest form. It's not killing, its sanitizing germs from the world.
So of someone did that to your child/loved one, you'd be content enough with them getting a few years in prison and possibly being free to walk the streets again....?
@RosieLeighGreen you say the death penalty is sickening but so is the crime they committed to get the death penalty in first place, and that's why I am not against the death penalty.
I dont think anybody can be as dumb as to travel to the moon. When its undiscovered how space are. But that human freeze to death in space. When its undiscovered what human can tolerate. Do the tests on yourself. Or not at all. When the coldest on earth is some degrees over 100. And in space its under 300°- C. The techic isnt advanced enough. What do we do about that. Very gentle and kind way.
No matter your opinion about what this movie tries to say, this is a strong scene.
That's a fact
Sister Helen Prejan is an advocate against the Death Penalty. I would suggest that you purchase, and read the book 📕 entitled ‘Until I Could Be Sure;’ the book was written by former Illinois Governor George Ryan.
The fact that it shows the scene of the crime along with the execution makes this scene really effective. It reminds us why he's in this spot in the first place.
Sean Penn showed what an outstanding actor he is in this scene.
He should have received the Academy Award for best actor.
No he shouldn't have. Cage was farrier better
@@TonyDanza4Lyfe - What beautiful times for cinema. Both movies, and performances were unquestionable.
Sister Helen Préjean was the only one who could have him eventually admit his guilt and ask not for mercy but for forgiveness. Only the parents can decide. But Sister Préjean acted as a true Christian, showing compassion to all till the very end.
Susan's roll was based on fact. I saw an interview that profiled the work of this nun who was the spiritual guider to death row inmates...she witnessed several executions. This was such a powerful roll Susan played...hence the Oscar she won. Incredible.
The parents had a very right to be angry even wish for vengeance and have complete resentment toward Penn’s character and the other man. It’s difficult to forgive someone for acts like theses.
@@orlandobabe There's no doubt it is difficult, perhaps even impossibly so - but it is what we are called to do, all the same.
@@orlandobabeI wonder when victims witness the execution of the convicted murderer, if they actually feel any sort of closure. It’s not like once the execution is over that anything in their life really changes, they still lost a loved one, but now another family has lost a loved one.
@@elliothill3953 That is exactly true so why have capital punishment?
Cutting between his execution and his murder of the teens--and having their ghosts appear in the window was very effective. No matter how genuinely sorry he is for what he's done, it doesn't undo it.
the real guy i don't think was sorry he claimed he just raped the girl thats not any better even his brother did kill them
Exactly. Despite the fact that we gradually see him as a human being who did a terrible deed, rather than as a monster, at the same time, it doesn't allow us to forget the crime. And it cuts to the two teens dead, and now, another who is dead. Simply lets us decide what we will.
Killing him doesn’t undo it either.
Though he never killed anyone.. his accomplice did it
@@TheRealBizWiz No but it's not about undoing, it is about justice. He will also never hurt another person. Prisoners still kill people.
The boy screaming for them to leave the girl alone is wrenching.
Just remember that his death was much more humane and clinical than the death of the person he killed. He got to make a last statement and eat a special last meal. He also got to mentally and spiritually prepare to die. His victim got none of that.
Amen
That's the core of the philosophical side of this movie.
Agreed.
No one deserves to die.
isn't this obfuscation. he was incarcerated. he was never going to escape.
if you're a vengeful person and like seeing people die, okay, fine. just don't pretend that death penalty has anything to do with justice
"do you have any last words?""Yes, I'd like to read war and peace to you"
“In the original Russian, please.”
“Can you read or speak Russian?”
“No. But I am willing to learn, no matter how long it takes!”
😆
yes, just threee
9:53 the part where his eyes open and you hear the heart monitor making that flatline sound got to me
the reason for six is because they want to make sure the person actually dies. they dont want him "half-dead" in there words. there is always more than needed just in case.
Six vials were used, three of which were saline used for flushing the intravenous line after the delivery of each of the three chemicals. This is done to prevent coagulation.
What I find unfair is that Matthew got executed while the other guy got his life spared.
I know. That scumbag deserved it too.
Same with tim McVeigh
@@jacquevogel7634 you really need to look at the real story, Robert Lee Willie never had an ounce of remorse
@@louisegough8644 No doubt. He was a filthy animal completely incapable of remote. Elmo Patrick Sonnier, however, was reportedly truly remorseful. The Poncelot character was based on both: Sonnier’s crimes and Willie’s demeanor and appearance.
*remorse. And FTR Sonnier went where he should’ve too
If I am correct as it shows at 6:28 two different officers flipping a switch to start the flow of the lethal chemicals, only one switch actually activates those, and the other administers harmless saline. I also remember reading that a computer erases the identity of which switch actually did it so they can't look it up. Similar to death by firing squad, how one executioner has a blank in his rifle. I forget the psychological term for it but it places doubt in the mind of those who fire/press buttons that "maybe I didn't kill him."
Louisiana, in actuality, never used a machine for administering lethal injections. It was manually delivered. Only Missouri and Illinois ever used a lethal injection machine and both states abandoned it in favor of manual delivery after relatively few executions using the machine.
It's a shame to see how many people missed the point of this movie.
I am so sorry. I haven’t watched it so I don’t get the point
What's the point that was missed?
@@justinm1200 Many people only revel in Matthew being executed, despite the movie trying to accomplish much more than simply "seeing the bad guy get what's coming to him."
It's about showing both sides of the death penalty argument, showing how Matthew's family will be impacted by his death, while also showing how his crimes scarred the families of his victims, asking the viewer to come to their own conclusion on whether or not he deserves to die.
But, it's also about recognizing that, even if you believe Matthew deserves to die, you first need to accept that you will be taking the life of a human being who can laugh, cry, and feel like everyone else. We call people like Matthew "monsters" to make it easier to flip the switch when it comes time to end his life, but deciding whether or not to execute someone should not be an easy decision. It needs to be something that we delve deep into and analyze to make sure that death is the "right" decision.
The point of the movie is not to forgive Matthew, or exonerate him, or even tell you that the death penalty is definitively right or wrong. It's simply about trying to humanize Matthew and anyone else who faces execution.
Who says anyone missed the point?
@@xGimpyx No one missed the point, skippy.
Remember that this movie is not forcing the audience to believe that Poncelet deserves clemency. It is clearly established that what he did was evil. The point is, throughout Poncelet did not want to own up to what he did. He was defiant. He wanted more sand in his hour glass. He has been blaming everyone else but himself. But through a little faith and love, he does the right thing. HE OWNS UP to his crime, and asks for forgiveness. The movie does not make Poncelet a redeemable character, but rather a repentant one.
how did he miss out on an Oscar for this. amazing and truly moving acting
Rana Mathew Nicholas Cage won that year for Leaving Las Vegas.
totally agree.
Because trying to humanize a low life rapist, murdering, pos is not popular with decent human beings.
But he was a human, that's the point. That a human can do something so vile and evil and still be redeemed. The film shows both sides to the argument so well, the pain of the family and their destruction over the loss of a child. The family of the murderer who suffer through no fault of their own. And that this woman went into the belly of the beast to try and find some humanity in this monster. Personally speaking, death was to good for him. And yet envy her compassion for him at the same time.
So did mel Gibson for braveheart
This music sounds like something straight out of my nightmares
In the voice of Percy wetmore - "Dead man walking , we got a Dead man walking . Dead man walking"
PERCY, that's enough.
I wish they would stop that in movies. They don't do that in real life. There is no point, other then that's what they do in the movies. Something like 99% don't struggle or put up any form of struggle. They have accepted it and are in a way relieved. Death house is quiet. Deathly quiet to use a fraise.
@@liamcdm3689 Toot, too
Excuse me, but in reality, guards don't make those types of comments as it's highly offensive, disturbing, and very distasteful.
@@liamcdm3689I Second That "NOW PRCY/PERCY, THAT'S ENOUGH!".
It looks like a crucifixion when he is propped up. I am sure that was the intent.
Mike Rieck Yes it was dramatic license. In actuality, condemned inmates in Louisiana whether they were executed by electric chair or lethal injection, would give their final remarks from a small podium mounted at the front of the execution chamber. They were placed on the gurney in a vertical standing position and lowered to a horizontal position.
Montgomery Mall how do u know that? Just curious
@@willandrews9741 robbins mentions it in the director commentary. He says they weren't trying to be too dramatic, that Louisiana actually does (or did in 96) the "crucifixion"
J F cool thanks!
Not only that, it's a Joanna Vark style exicution, like the Potassium chloride hit's the vains, it burns all the way to the heart, that's the shit that kills a person, stop there heart, you see, the first and second drug's only sedated you, so you don't have to witness a horrific seen,so it looks Humane, but it's not and that's why all the drug companies, will not sell it or the drugs for that purpose, and the United Nations has band this ack of legal murder, so that's what they say, if that was me, I would pick the electric chair because Once they throw the switch, it's like being shot in the head, It's instant death.
The eerie thing about this is that it looks more like a simple medical procedure than an execution
As an electrician I saw it must be weird to be the person that wired up that control system...
That's how it's supposed to look and feel in real life.
Exactly. It's an execution disguised as a medical procedure.
We just finished this movie in my sociology class and about half the class was bawling their eyes out cx I didn’t cry but this movie made me emotional inside, this scene was so intense
RIP R. Lee Ermey 1944-2018
R.I.P shannon and christopher newsome
This is why you shouldn't kill Gunnery Sergeant Hartman's daughter.
mary jane rottencrotch?
I'm gonna watch you sizzle!
R. Lee Ermey was such a fantastic actor who wasn’t even supposed to be an actor.
I think sean penn earned this Oscar. From Jeff Spicoli to this guy
Except he didn’t win; Nic Cage did.
You swab the arm, CSRITUS, so they don't get an infection. You don't want them to go the hell AND be sick. - George Carlin
There is evidence to suggest that a prisoner undergoing lethal injection will experiance excruciating pain, but will be unable to express it due to the injection of sodium pentathol, which paralyzes the prisoner.
Oh really, that’s good. I’m sure their victims felt far worse.
This one deserved any ounce of pain he might have felt before kicking the bucket, scumbag rapist
@@sistahlamb ok so shall we just go back to burning people alive like we did in the middle ages?? What a stupid comment. Let's hope you never get falsely accused of murder in one of the southern states
Absolutely. So bloody frightening. I never understand why if they must execute people (and I don't think they should) they don't simply use a firing squad
When the one getting executed told the nun he loves her I think like maybe in a mother son way or something not sure. I can't really say where I stand on the death sentence and on how its done.
I once asked a pastor at a church a question i asked if your 10 year daughter was raped a murdered and the guy you knew and everybody knew did it but nobody could proof it and he was set free and he walked in your church the next day and got face to face with you and said Please forgive me then you look down and theres a bible and a gun which one would you pick up? He paused for about ten seconds and said id pick up the gun a blow his head off but i said thou shall not kill right? He had no more words for me so to the people that are not for the death penalty maybe you should walk in the victims familys shoes for once and imagine if somebody murdered your child or a family member that you loved then i think you all would change your minds
the interesting part is that he was actually killed in an electric chair :/
I didnt know that
Apparently it was a deliberate choice by Tim Robbins. People seem to think a lethal injection is so much more humane and easier than the electric chair - they intended to show it makes no difference - killing is wrong.
@@fooledbyrandom991 Additionally, Poncelet's character is actually a synthesis of two different inmates Prejean assisted. The film clearly wanted to avoid overcomplicating a general truth about what these criminals were like and how their relationship was with Prejean.
American movies tend to get a long wrong when it comes to incarceration and the death penalty.
In Shawshawk Redemption they even have prisoners waiting 20+ years to even get a parole hearing when the average time served in the era this took place was seven years.
Almost nobody "got old" in prison, since parole came very quick for all but a small handful of lifers -- mostly those convicted of several murders, or those with mental illnesses that make them act dangerously.
As for this film, which takes place in Louisiana, not only did they get the execution method wrong, they also got it wrong for The Green Mile -- also in Louisiana.
In 1935, the official method of execution in Louisiana was hanging -- not electrocution.
Electrocution would not be introduced to the state until the 1940s.
Man, if ever there was someone who deserved mercy . . . it sure as hell wasn't this guy!
Not sure... I kind of disagree with that statement...
@@digitalrevolution6476 bro he raped and killed a dude’s girlfriend while he was forced to watch
I disagree. You're normally spared death if you confess, which he did. He also repented and continued his friendship with sister Helen when he realised she couldn't save his life. I don't agree with the death penalty. He could have been useful to other prisoners as he could have counselled them into confessing their guilt and encouraged an interest in religion. I'm an atheist and even I can see that
Yeah well this is Louisiana son, you answer for what you did down here.
@@chloephillips1381 Are you joking? He could have counseled other prisoners? Why should he get to counsel other prisoners when he killed somebody who doesn't get to have any type of a life because they're dead. It's called an eye for an eye and his death was more humane and clinical than the person he killed. He got to make a last statement and eat a last special meal. He also got to mentally and spiritually prepare to die. His victim got none of that. Also in one of your other comments you said this film made you sympathize with the rapist (if not slightly more) as much as the victims. Wow! You say you're an atheist so I'm also assuming you're a liberal and you type of people are just so extremely soft and naive.
one of the best movies i have ever seen. great acting by Sean and Susan.
Damn straight, this and Mystic River are Sean Penn's best roles! If Nicolas Cage wasn't competing for the Oscar in '95, Sean Penn should have won!
@@smdmorga2 penn still should have won, in my opinion.
Yes and Tim Robbins directed perfe🎉❤
I once read a story where a 12 year old girl was raped and killed by a man he was convicted and sentenced to death for it years passed by and the parents of the little girl waited and waited for justice and grieved everyday but it never came because the guy who murdered their daughter out lived both the mother and father on death row using his appeals the parents died broken the man was put to death later on but the point here is the death penalty isnt a deterent anymore we need a system put into place that says if your found guilty of murder and sentenced to death you get no appeals and your death warrent is signed right away and you would be put to death within days not years they make to many deals with these monsters to avoid the death penalty take one long look at chris watts and tell me if the death penalty works!!
Top ten biggest run-ons of all time
What an asinine comment to make.
they never say "DEAD MAN WALKING" when they give someone a lethal injection
No they don't. But at the Florida State Prison in Starke, that phrase is said by corrections officers when they are escorting a condemned inmate through the central corridor to and from the administration office.
@@MontgomeryMall Wow. To rattle them, I guess.
@@anastasiaugwu1005 No, it is said to get all the other inmates to get out of the way and get to the sides of the corridor as the guards escort the condemned inmate.
You've certainly got that right. It's definitely a very tough one, and there is never any one answer that serves and/or satisfies everybody.
Sean Penn. One of the greatest actor of all time.
As someone who's terrified of hypodermic needles, this scene is...😩 But, man, his victims went through hell. Poor souls.
Can I take the pills instead please? - probably wouldn’t work here .
R. Lee Ermey is such an underrated actor. I always tear up at his face during the execution scene - he wants Poncelet punished, but he seems like he's also wondering, "Am I doing the right thing in being here?"
KOHF34 I didn’t know that was Gunny!
Jason Kieffer Yep! It's him!
Raymond J. Barry too
Not a movie I could bear to watch twice, but still on my 10 best list.
@RosieLeighGreen I don't care what's right or wrong! I care about justice!
there are 2 people to turn on the switchs ...i believe it is so that they dont know which one turned the injection.
(Continuing my last post)--Most likely, he urinated and defecated on himself when he died, which explains that line, "A grown man going to his death in a DIAPER AND SLIPPERS!!"
Robert Nielsen I think every method of execution in America releases human waste. Yep, as soon as his heart popped, his eyes opened!
Great movie 🎥👍👍
But to be real and honest there are a few mistakes they did make
My source (Judgement at midnight-Vimeo)
1)In Louisiana the final meal is not eaten in the cell but rather in the lobby (feet away from the death chamber-creepy right)
2)The last words are spoken from a podium that is located right by the door inside the death chamber
3) Louisiana dose not lift the gurney up, Nor is the final words spoken in that position but rather on the podium (example #2)
4) the seat belt straps are not the style that Louisiana uses to hold down the condemned Imamate during the execution, nor is the arm restraints (it’s not a multi layered strap)
But rather a single arm restraint and an additional zip tie restraint
5) the person being executed would have a white sheet covering them up from their feet all the way up to their chest
6) the chest restraints are at the beginning put on the inmate in the movie but when the execution is completed they mystery disappear
7) the State of Louisiana does not use Fred Lucher‘s lethal injection machine but rather does it manually hiding behind the wall where the inmates head is located
A few simple errors done by Hollywood
But overall a GREAT Movie 👍😀
Check out (Judgement at Midnight)and see for yourself
lock him up where he can have fun, and make friends and live his life? NO THANKS. death for killers.
I would be scared shitless if I was in that situation in real life.
Jacobb C it would be funny if a death row inmate about executed got so scared they'd die of a heart attack or stroke beforehand and beat the state at their game
@@jondstewart the death penalty is a tragedy, not justice. It’s not a laughing manner for neither the convict, the guards, nor the victim’s families
I watched the start of this film about 15 years ago, and I turned it off, thinking it was too melodramatic and preachy. This clip was "recommended" to me and I laughed involuntarily as I realised I was right all those years ago and was glad that I didn't waste two hours watching the film and just spent ten seeing the end and commenting on it.
*ten minutes
1:34 "DEAD MAN WALKING!"
This a great movie for the fact that he committed a horrible act of violence & yet you feel for him.
What was the real case? Give me the source please.
His crimes were hideous, but in terms of his execution, they're watching another mother's son die.
i didn't kid.. the scum bag murderer deserved it !
ShadoeFax I don’t feel for him
@@jtfourlife it's based on a book sister Helen Prejean (Susan Surandon) wrote. The actual movie is based in the case of Robert Lee Willie & Joseph Vaccaro who abducted, raped & murdered an 18 year old girl named Faith Hatheway. They were sentenced to death for Faith Hatheway murder but they also committed the crime scene in the film. They attacked a couple Mark Brewster (20) & his 17 year old girlfriend Debbie Cuevas, they raped Debbie & shot & stabbed Mark. Believing he was dead they dropped off Debbie after visiting a friend. Mark Brewster survived the attack but was paralyzed from the waist down. Once again, he was sentenced to death for the Faith Hatheway murder but the movie used the Brewster & Cuevas attack as the reason for him receiving death penalty. The film is accurate in pretty much every other aspect, Sister Prejean was his spiritual advisor up until his execution & he showed remorse for his actions. Although he showed remorse he reportedly accepted his death & hoped his death would ease the Hatheways pain. He deserved what he got 100%. I believe in death penalty, & he deserved it after the heinous crimes he committed.
Well, Actually @JohnTheBigAss,
The whole time, he was just laying there knocked unconscious by the first 2 drugs. He died after the last drug was minsistered into him and he took his last puff.
- Dwight
Never kill drill Sergeant Hartman's daughter
The cost of a system in which the number of death-eligible crimes was significantly narrowed would be $130 million per year.
When you take a life, you then give away your right to life.
Seeing the ghosts of the victims at the end gives me chills
He brutally raped and tortured and murdered a teen girl and murdered a teen boy
Good on him for remorse
But execute him!
His death is more than justified
But it doesn't bring them back.
@Mac14329 geez you liberals are sooo annoying.
@@Mac14329Its justice nevertheless
@@shschesschamp It doesn't matter. It doesn't bring them back.
Well, @Timothy Costorf,
We can talk about who or what deserves an Oscar all that we want to.
But Unfortunatly, The Oscars are basically acting school awards.
It doesn`t always matter what or whom we the fans think that deserves the Oscars, It is what the heads of the National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences think that decides what and whom deserves the Oscars.
- Dwight
What colour is melancholy. Dark blue, lila, and redbrown. What else do those colours symbolice.
Peter Sarsgaard played one of the victims, I think it's his first film.
That fool rode the lightning in real life .
The victims spirits in this scene watching Poncelet die is somewhat a relief. But Poncelets execution doesn't even come close to how these 2 poor kids were killed...so violently and inhumane. The law should be an "eye for an eye."
It's also sickening to know, people who get the death penalty have done things to deserve it. Like raping little children, burning bodies to hide evidence. If you take the freedoms of someone else, yours should be too.
And they clearly deserve the death penalty for those heinous acts!! Sickening!! They ruin those poor innocent childrens lives forever so their life should end too!!!
TheBearStrikes true when wrong prople go on death row lack of evidence DNA the bias of the people then the death penalty is unjust
Not to be a spoiled sport, but just because he was executed doesn't mean he gave up his right to vote.
When he says "may she toucn me" i tear up each time
where they get those racing seat belts?
HABITUAL_KRIMINAL These are not the straps used in executions,this was artistic licience.
+kathy heitchue Actually, the gurney used for lethal injection executions in Louisiana does have seat belt style restraints on it.
However, the scene where Matthew Poncelet is asked to give his final words while strapped to the gurney fixed in the vertical position is artistic license.
In actuality, condemned inmates in Louisiana give their final words prior to being strapped to the gurney from a podium located in the corner of the execution chamber.
This kind of has some of the music texture from The Outsiders too as well?
If killing is wrong, it's wrong. Period.
It's literally sickens me how people can feel sorry for these monsters. I bet if it were to happen to someone they love they wouldn't be so quick to defend them. What they did to that girl is absolutely vile! And they should have been killed the same way.
No one defends what these people do and no one opposes the death penalty because they believe the murderer has more rights then the victim.
For myself, I will quote the film: “killing is wrong”. I understand the desire and impulse to wreck the most horrific punishment possible on those that harm you and your loved ones. But, that is not justice and any society operating on those principles would fall apart.
I don’t believe in the death penalty because ultimately it does nothing - no one is brought back and no one is deterred (most murders are crimes of passion with little thought to consequences). All it does ultimately is appeal to the basest need to inflict pain for pain caused and I think we can be better then that.
@@fooledbyrandom991 the death penalty does do something. It means for a fact they cannot get out later, on good behavior and reoffend.
@@EAHorror That's why you have life sentences with no parole, window-licker.
Compared to what he did to those poor people, this was humane as hell.
its people like you who ruin our society.
The long walk to eternity, this bastard deserved to die.
Daniel Cindea He deserved it.
You can't prove that its' wrong to kill someone by a murder...
The death penalty is the only way to punish those who commit crimes such as his
Ironically, Sean gets a blessing from Herschel in The Walking Dead since he is a Dead Man Walking at 2:27 LOL!
😂😂👌👌
Hershel.😍💖😣
+thegorn68 actor Scott Wilson who plays the prison minister, portrayed condemned murderer Dick Hickok in the 1967 film "In Cold Blood". Hickok was hanged along with Perry Smith at the end of that film which was based upon the famous Truman Capote novel about four Kansas murders.
I know one thing, they'd better clean that damn thing before they put me up there!
First things first: It's so impressive how strong Susan Sarandon's character is!
Now, I come from a country that declared the death penalty illegal over a hundred years ago, just as the majority of civilized countries have by now except for (a number of) the United States, because the entire juridical system is based by money and revenge. I got a strong sense of justice. I despise Sean Penn's character Poncelet for what he did to those poor teenagers and I can't imagine how vengeful I'd feel as a family member! But this right here is society taking revenge. And that may seem similar, but it's not, because the idea of law and order is that society has to be at least better than its worst perp (in this case, better than a despicable rapist, torturer and killer)! But let's say, just for argument's sake, that I consider death penalty a fair sentence if the offense was as extreme as this. You can't revive a dead (wo)man, right? Therefore, practicing the death sentence would require the most flawless of judiciaries. An impeccable system of law and order with as little political or media influence as possible. That is definitely not the case in the US! The dark figures of falsely accused/convicted people in US prisons in comparison to other first-world countries are nothing short of gut-wrenching ...not to mention the circumstances under which American immates seem to live every day. That's nowhere near social rehabilitation or justice, it's just social revenge! It's like Poncelet's lawyer says in the hearing: No rich (wo)man has ever seen the inside of the death row. At least this poor (💰) perp actually committed his crimes, but the fact that he gets the lethal injection while his partner who initiated it all gets to live, just because he happened to get better legal council (not some tax attorney who'd never defended an accused manslaughterer before)? - You can't tell me that's justice! And the fact that some governor orders the fast-tracking of someone's execution because his re-election campaign profits from it? - no words! Just to be clear, I don't agree with a governor's liberty to amnesty a convicted perp either. The US are allowing for sth. that monarchs in Europe could do, but was luckily declared unconstitutional when they stopped being heads of government. Governors in the so-called land of the free seem have the status of monarchs here. How can America even speak of separation of powers when they're such an illusion? 😮 Bottom line, I'm not against the death penalty because I think those men deserve to live. I'm against it because the few countries in this world that still practice this legalized murder include some of the most unfair judicairies. I'm not at all saying my country's system is flawless, I'm just glad to live in a modern constitutional democracy that doesn't pretend to work in such impeccable ways.
superb vascularity on display from Penn...
1:34 In reality, you don't hear guards yelling "Dead Man Walking" as it's highly offensive, very distasteful, and outright rude.
It is used in Florida State Prison whenever a condemned man is out of the death row unit being escorted to the warden’s office elsewhere in the prison. Other I inmates know that they must get their backs up against the wall of the corridor and clear a path for the guards escorting the restrained condemned inmate.
Daniel,
I asked that question on another posting of this video, and was told that at the moment of death, all his muscles relaxed, including those controlling his eyes and bladder (which explains why his eyes open--the muscles keeping them closed relaxed and they opened). He also, most likely, urinated and defecated all over himself. (Which is why he complained about "a grown man going to his death in a diaper and slippers!!") :)
This just goes to show the power that doctors and even non medical professionals such as executioners have, moral of the story don’t do anything stupid
07:45 begins the magic, the one and only, Nusrat
Saw on TV show he got the chair not the needle
I have no problem with this.....if mistakes were never made....but DNA has shown us that they are made.
So depressing....and sad..:/..what is the background music?
Choral piece is Sacred Love by Gyorgy Sviridov, arranged and conducted by Gil Robbins, Tim’s dad. Then, Nusrat
@FieldMarshalRommel23 Would you be saying that if that was your child?
3:57 Why does she wipe his arm? There is no risk of infection.... this time....
I think it makes the needle easier to inject, but I’m not sure.
Because there’s little chance to fail execution. It’s a rare case but it happens
It’s standard, because there is always a chance the governor could call and postpone or pardon the execution up to the last minute.
I thought the cry of "Dead Man Walking" was something that only the likes of Percy Wetmore shouted. Must be terryfying to hear that and knowing that the guard is referring to you. Juzt as it was terryfying for the victims when Poncelet appeared.
9:52... I have no idea why but I used to get so spooked out (and still do from time to time) when he's finally dead and opens his eyes... Anyone else? Or am I just a wimp lol
His eyes opening AND the music from Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan used to creep me out big time
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, and the whole world would be blind and toothless
Celeste Sykes And starving
Mahatma
Not that many people rape and murder though.
Killers aren't innocent. They're killers.
In prison they have sex, make jokes, have fun...no one that can take away a life for no reason deserves to have those liberties.
I'd like to kno as to how they did these special effects
The lethal injection was the same way carnage was created in venom let there be carnage
Can someone give me a brief explanation on how this scene highlighted the important idea on the morality of the death penalty.
The music and the showing of his crimes are judgement and damnation that his sin is unforgivable and there for is damned for hell no repentance can save him it's too late
I’m glad they maintained sterile technique when they placed the IV. Catheter related infections can be a bear to manage.
What song was played at 6:37?
Darude - Sandstorm
Who is the tough guy now?
@KristiA72 it isn't really a song, its an ALAAP by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; the legendary Pakistan Qawwal...
Man people only associate us with terrorism now, Miss you Nusrat :(
Cold blood killers get to know what it feels like, those final moments of fear. Justice in it's purest form. It's not killing, its sanitizing germs from the world.
So of someone did that to your child/loved one, you'd be content enough with them getting a few years in prison and possibly being free to walk the streets again....?
Rebecca Rutherford I sure wouldn’t be. I’d want them executed
We are all born sinners. We must all forgive each other. Give it to God 🙏🙏
Interesting that they used seat belt clips…just watched RFDS and seen the brother dieing scene in the plane…that was more emotional than this…
@RosieLeighGreen you say the death penalty is sickening but so is the crime they committed to get the death penalty in first place, and that's why I am not against the death penalty.
Why did his eyes open at the end?
Sometimes when you die, your muscles relax.
Hate is burning love, love is cool hate.
The law says don't kill follow procedure for justice
I dont think anybody can be as dumb as to travel to the moon. When its undiscovered how space are. But that human freeze to death in space. When its undiscovered what human can tolerate. Do the tests on yourself. Or not at all. When the coldest on earth is some degrees over 100. And in space its under 300°- C. The techic isnt advanced enough. What do we do about that. Very gentle and kind way.