Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai

Takashi Miike remakes Masaki Kobayashi's 1962 film about a penniless samurai who commits the ritual act of suicide.

"...going as we learn the exact circumstances behind the death of this particular samurai...."

Aug. 31, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Outlawing Death and Cockfighting, and Restoring Rights for Drug Offenders

Committees to hear raft of criminal justice bills today

"...restoring public assistance for drug offenders, and all things death penalty. Those are among the bills up for hearing..."

March 29, 2011 News Post by Jordan Smith

Fantastic Fest: 'The Life and Death of a Porno Gang'

Sex and death make a bloody mess in Serbia

"...will push more buttons than Serbia's The Life and Death of A Porno Gang...."

Sept. 24, 2010 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Death at a Funeral

A remake of a 3-year-old British comedy, Death at a Funeral transfers its farce from a predominantly white cast to predominantly black.

"...patent on gallows humor, too, but Frank Oz's 2007 Death at a Funeral was a dud, never finding the..."

April 23, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Death Takes No Holiday

Mourning two Austin players.

"...Death comes much too quickly and silently after a certain..."

Oct. 1, 2007 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Death at a Funeral

Pure farce served straight up and directed by the man who moonlights as the voice of Yoda and Miss Piggy.

"...generous portion of dysfunction. Stir well. The result is Death at a Funeral, a comedy that’s refreshing in its..."

Aug. 17, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Doctor Death

Checking in with Hospital Productions

"...music comes to die. The store only sells obscure death and black metal albums with a side of noise...."

Feb. 8, 2007 Music Post by Austin Powell

Love and Death on Long Island

"...situation to conclusion. But until that point, Love and Death on Long Island is the height of drollery, a..."

March 27, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Three Lives and Only One Death

"...success. His latest film, Three Lives and Only One Death, may help to change that situation. The French-made film..."

April 18, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Death Be Not Cheap

Austin's Largest Death Care Provider May Not Provide Best Deal

"...funeral provider in Austin is Cook-Walden; it dominates the "death care" business in the Austin area, and it's getting..."

March 28, 1997 News Feature by Robert Bryce

SXSW Short and Sweet: “Love is Only Just a Death Away”

Bára Anna Stejskalová gives stop-motion life to a lonely worm

"...SXSW. Today's pick is "Love is Only Just a Death Away" - Bára Anna Stejskalová's stop motion story of..."

March 19, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Death By Festival Counts Down to 10/31

New horror/metal fest finalizes films with anthology premiere

"...nearly here, and new hybrid heavy metal/horror film gathering Death By Festival is getting in the seasonal mood by..."

Oct. 7, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Death Watch: Generations of Madness

Is Derrick Charles competent for execution?

"...could explain. He pled guilty, and was sentenced to death May 14, 2003. At trial, his attorneys did very..."

May 8, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

APD Rules Train Death Suicide

13-year old was apparent victim of bullying

"...South Austin train accident Friday as Jasmine Sanchez. The death has been ruled a suicide...."

April 30, 2014 News Post by Brandon Watson

Pot Possession Becomes a Death Sentence in Harris County

Harris County officials have not yet said what led to death of 29-year-old woman in jail for minor possession

"...That was the case earlier this month in Harris..."

June 30, 2009 News Post by Jordan Smith

Why Is Doil Lane Still on Death Row?

Despite a Supreme Court ban on the execution of the mentally retarded, those prisoners remain on Texas' death row.

"...the small cage that is the visiting room for death row inmates at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston. His..."

Oct. 17, 2003 News Feature by Rita Radostitz

Death Watch: Quiet on Death Row

Pandemic halts the sputtering execution machine

"...people. Our state's juries sentenced just two people to death...."

Dec. 25, 2020 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

'The Death Penalty Is About Us'

'Dead Man Walking' scribe Sister Helen Prejean speaks in town tonight

"...book – newly subtitled “The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate” – was released..."

Dec. 3, 2013 Books Post by Jessi Cape

Tinkering With the Machinery of Death

The Texas Legislature moves slowly to consider alternatives to the death penalty

"...sector and in the heartland understand how unfair the death penalty is -- the death tax is -- and..."

March 9, 2001 News Column by Michael King

Inside Texas' Angels of Death, Who Refuse Hundreds of Death Row Pleas but May Expedite Daniel Perry Pardon

How the Board of Pardons and Paroles runs its ship

"...When Hasmukh Patel was shot to death in his San Antonio convenience store in 2004, it..."

May 12, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Legislators Urge Abbott to Spare the Life of Woman on Death Row

Justice for Melissa Lucio?

"...prayed with Melissa Lucio last week at the women's death row prison in Gatesville, where she awaits her scheduled..."

April 15, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Texas Death Penalty Sentencing Declines

A new report shows sentencing on the decline – but Texas is still No. 1 when it comes to killing

"...The number of new death sentences imposed in Texas this year was the lowest..."

Dec. 11, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Song of Life on Death Row

How Dead Man Walking came to be an opera -- and to be produced in Austin before almost every other city in the world -- reveals the great risks and rewards in developing new works for the modern operatic stage.

"...one that deals, as so many operas do, with death. Were it a wooden scaffold, with steps the prisoner..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Young Man on Death Row

Juvenile offender Randy Arroyo's case puts Texas's execution factory on trial.

"...who hasn't shot or stabbed someone wind up on death row? Speaking quickly and precisely, Randy Arroyo explains the..."

Jan. 10, 2003 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Anti-Death-Penalty Nun Talks “Bible Belt” and “Death Belt” in Austin

She calls execution the “apex” of a flawed punitive system

"...Sister Helen Prejean’s walk into the dark world of death row began with letters. It was part of her..."

April 11, 2025 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Death Watch: As Execution Falls Out of Favor Nationwide, Texas Accelerates

State continues to execute priests and the intellectually disabled

"...reports that a majority of Americans now believe the death penalty is unfair. The finding is part of the..."

Dec. 8, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Death Penalty Report: We’re Mostly Killing People Sentenced Decades Ago

The popularity of killing criminals in the 80s and 90s still ripples through today

"...to execution every year at the height of the death penalty's popularity, from the 1980s through the early 2000s...."

Dec. 23, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Death Watch: Conveyor Belt to Lethal Injection Keeps Rolling

Ramirez will be prayed over as he dies

"...The Texas death penalty is often likened to a machine, an impersonal..."

Sept. 30, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Mixed Trends on Death Row

Dallas County surges forward in new death penalty sentences

"...counties, Harris County has sent the most defendants to death row since 1976, when capital punishment was reinstated. But..."

Dec. 27, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Harris County Death Penalty: Race matters

New study shows race a factor in capital sentences

"...that race plays a role in who gets the death penalty and who doesn't. It's long been accepted that..."

June 6, 2008 News Feature by Rita Radostitz

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