Death Penalty Through Life of David Gale
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The Life of David Gale makes many arguments against the death penalty throughout the movie showing how far the characters in the movie will go to promote this cause they hold near and dear to their hearts. David Gale plays a Professor in the philosophy department, but after a series of unfortunate events he ends up on death row even though through his entire career he made himself a known advocate for the Death Watch; which was an anti-death penalty organization that frequently fought for this cause through rally’s and debates. After he has sex with one of his students, Berlin, through which she directs him to do so in a way that evidence of rape is prominent. He is arrested on charges of rape and Berlin flees the state to Sandiego, Ca. After she dropped the charges his wife leaves him and takes their son to Italy, leaving him with nothing and no one but his best friend Constance Hollaway, and the Death Watch organization. While on a call with the Death Watch’s president, who explains that he no longer wants Gale to be a part of the organization, that send him into a downward spiral and ends up at Constance’s house where she collapses and he finds out that she has leukemia and is dying. He is explaining all of this while on death row for killing and raping Constance to a reporter Elizabeth Bloom while she tries to find a way to expose what really happened to prove his innocence. Once she figures out that Dusty, Constance’s friend, is holding the tape that proves Gale’s innocence she is too late and Gale has been killed. She then finds the rest of the tape which Gales lawyer sends to her, that David was aware of this the entire time and died for the cause to show that the death penalty can cause the death of innocent people. I think that this movie makes very clear and concise arguments against the death penalty such as deterrence, during the debate against the Congressman Gale argued that the fact that people might be put to
The Life of David Gale makes many arguments against the death penalty throughout the movie showing how far the characters in the movie will go to promote this cause they hold near and dear to their hearts. David Gale plays a Professor in the philosophy department, but after a series of unfortunate events he ends up on death row even though through his entire career he made himself a known advocate for the Death Watch; which was an anti-death penalty organization that frequently fought for this cause through rally’s and debates. After he has sex with one of his students, Berlin, through which she directs him to do so in a way that evidence of rape is prominent. He is arrested on charges of rape and Berlin flees the state to Sandiego, Ca. After she dropped the charges his wife leaves him and takes their son to Italy, leaving him with nothing and no one but his best friend Constance Hollaway, and the Death Watch organization. While on a call with the Death Watch’s president, who explains that he no longer wants Gale to be a part of the organization, that send him into a downward spiral and ends up at Constance’s house where she collapses and he finds out that she has leukemia and is dying. He is explaining all of this while on death row for killing and raping Constance to a reporter Elizabeth Bloom while she tries to find a way to expose what really happened to prove his innocence. Once she figures out that Dusty, Constance’s friend, is holding the tape that proves Gale’s innocence she is too late and Gale has been killed. She then finds the rest of the tape which Gales lawyer sends to her, that David was aware of this the entire time and died for the cause to show that the death penalty can cause the death of innocent people. I think that this movie makes very clear and concise arguments against the death penalty such as deterrence, during the debate against the Congressman Gale argued that the fact that people might be put to