- Too Young to Die?
Infobox_Film
name = Too Young to Die?
writer = David Hill
George Rubino
starring = Michael Tucker,Juliette Lewis ,Brad Pitt ,Alan Fudge
director = Robert Markowitz
producer = Susan Weber-Gold
Julie Anne Weitz
distributor =
released =26 February 1990
runtime = 92 min.
language = English
music = Charles Bernstein
awards =
imdb_id = 0100797"Too Young to Die?" is a 1990
television movie starringBrad Pitt andJuliette Lewis . It touches on the debate concerning thedeath penalty . It is based on a true story.Basis
The film is loosely based on Attina Marie Cannaday, who along with David Gray and Dawn Bushart, killed Ronald Wojcik, with a knife, in
Harrison County, Mississippi onJune 3 1982 .Cannaday (born
September 8 ,1965 ) was charged with robbery, kidnapping, and homicide. At the time of her trial, she was a sixteen year old divorcee, who had married at thirteen and divorced at fourteen. She was convicted in Harrison County Circuit Court of the kidnap and murder of U. S. Air Force Sergeant Ronald Wojcik and the jury sentenced her to death bylethal injection . The guilty verdict was upheld, but the sentence was reversed in 1984, "Cannaday v. State", 455 So.2d 713, 720 (Miss. 1984), and she is currently serving one life sentence and two 25-year sentences at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility (inmate number 42451). She is scheduled for paroleMarch 7 2008 .Her co-defendant, David Randolph Gray (born
May 29 1954 ) was charged withaggravated assault ,grand larceny , and homicide. He, too, was sentenced to death by lethal injection. His sentence was reversed in May 1987, by the U. S. Supreme Court, in "Gray v. Mississippi", 481 U.S. 648, on the basis "a qualified juror was excluded from his trial". He is currently serving a life sentence in Central Mississippi Correctional Facility (inmate number 01440). [ [http://www.oyez.org/cases/1980-1989/1986/1986_85_5454/ "Gray v. Mississippi", 481 U.S. 648 (1987)] . - Oyez Project - November 12, 1986] [Transcript: [http://www.oyez.org/cases/1980-1989/1986/1986_85_5454/argument/ U.S. Supreme Court Oral Argument] . -"Gray v. Mississippi", 481 U.S. 648 (1987). - Oyez Project - November 12, 1986] [ [http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=CASE&court=US&vol=481&page=648 "Gray v. Mississippi", 481 U.S. 648 (1987)] . - FindLaw: Cases and Codes] [ [http://www.mdoc.state.ms.us/InmateDetails.asp?PassedId=01440 Inmate 01440] - Mississippi Department of Corrections]Cast
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Michael Tucker - "as" - Buddy Thornton
*Juliette Lewis - "as" - Amanda Sue Bradley
*Brad Pitt - "as" - Billy Canton
*Alan Fudge - "as" - D.A. Mark Calhoun
*Emily Longstreth - "as" - Jean
*Laurie O'Brien - "as" - Wanda Bradley Sledge
*Yvette Heyden - "as" - Mike's New Girl
*Tom Everett - "as" - Judge Harper
*Michael O'Keefe - "as" - Mike Medwicki
*Dean Abston- "as" - Harvey Sledge
*J. Stephen Brady - "as" - Brian
*Mark Davenport - "as" - Mickey
*Lew Hopson - "as" - Star
*Annabelle Weenick - "as" - Birdie Jewel
*Charles C. Stevenson Jr. - "as" - PastorReferences
Further reading
* Kuncl, Tom, and Paul Einstein, (1990). - "Ladies Who Kill". - New York, New York: Pinnacle Books. - ISBN 1558172491
External links
* [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1053512-too_young_to_die/ Review] - RottenTomatoes
* [http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie.aspx?m=519647 Review] - MSN
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