I'm no videographer, so pull me up on this if I'm wrong – but surely hours and hours of video of you executing a crime is not a good thing?
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They planned to execute a perfect crime that would avoid any bloodshed, but it went off the rails at the very end.
Here's the set-up: "Get Real," the TV show that shows you real people doing real things, hires real criminals to plot and execute a real crime.
What design could execute such a crime?
The group (calling itself the "Citizens Commissionn to Investigate the FBI") was formed independently of any of the other dozens of anti-war groups in existence at the time, met in absolute secrecy, planned and executed a daring crime, successfully got the information to the public, and then (most important of all) they completely disbanded, never to meet again.
Saudi Arabia, a signatory to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, is obliged not to execute a person convicted of a crime when he or she was a minor.
When we erroneously execute a man -- for a crime he did not commit -- we punish ourselves.
Performed by eight actors known collectively as the Black Gents of Hollywood, "Webeime" (we, be, I, me) tries to get inside the head of a nameless man who is about to be executed for a crime that, in the end, we don't learn nearly enough about.
