2010: Michael Perry, Herzog subject
July 1st, 2012 Headsman
It was on this date in 2010 that Texas executed Michael Perry by lethal injection for his part in a triple homicide that netted a cherry-red Camaro.
Perry is the subject of the 2011 Werner Herzog documentary Into the Abyss; being a Herzog film, it comes recommended.
Abyss is “not an issue film; it’s not an activist film against capital punishment,” Herzog has said. “In this particular case, with this very senseless crime, so senseless it’s staggering, what fascinated me was that it points to a decay in family values and the cohesion of society, all these things that looked so big and beyond this case.”
Trailer:
Interview with Herzog:
Full movie, if it remains available:
On this day..
- 1523: Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos, the first Lutheran martyrs - 2020
- 1896: The Rufus Buck Gang, heaven-dream't - 2019
- 1681: Archbishop Oliver Plunkett, the last Catholic martyr in Great Britain - 2018
- 1941: Francisco Escribano, for supplying the Spanish Maquis - 2017
- 1555: John Bradford, in the grace of God - 2016
- 1819: Neyonibe and Naugechek - 2015
- 1413: Pierre des Essarts - 2014
- 1943: Willem Arondeus, gay resistance fighter - 2013
- 1569: Three Huguenot Parisians - 2011
- 1346: Simon Pouillet - 2010
- 1947: The avatar of Doctor Wonder - 2009
- 1766: Jean-François de la Barre, freethinker martyr - 2008
Entry Filed under: 21st Century,Arts and Literature,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Execution,History,Lethal Injection,Murder,Pelf,Ripped from the Headlines,Texas,Theft,USA
Tags: 2010, 2010s, cinema, into the abyss, july 1, michael perry, werner herzog
Werner Herzog is the father of Rudolf, from whose book I got Marianne Kurchner’s story from.