A cabbie is stabbed to death and it looks like a robbery of which we had a flurry
of New York City back then. But it's hardly that and the arrest is made of David
Wike, a budding author who did some time in the joint and did kill a man there.
The joker in this deck for Sam Waterston is that Wike eventually says he'll plead guilty if he's promised an execution. All kinds of a fuss is raised by anti-death penalty activists. Among them is Saul Rubinek a Lawrence Tribe like law professor who Elisabeth Rohm has history with.
Stanley Anderson plays a Norman Mailer like author who leads his own campagn to save Wike. Anderson and Jesse Martin have a long extended scene when Anderson was on the police radar as a suspect. A most informal interrogation.
Thr right of the state to impose capitak punishmwnt versus the right to die. It don't get clearer than that.
The joker in this deck for Sam Waterston is that Wike eventually says he'll plead guilty if he's promised an execution. All kinds of a fuss is raised by anti-death penalty activists. Among them is Saul Rubinek a Lawrence Tribe like law professor who Elisabeth Rohm has history with.
Stanley Anderson plays a Norman Mailer like author who leads his own campagn to save Wike. Anderson and Jesse Martin have a long extended scene when Anderson was on the police radar as a suspect. A most informal interrogation.
Thr right of the state to impose capitak punishmwnt versus the right to die. It don't get clearer than that.