Too Young to Die? is a 1990
television movieA television movie is a feature film that is produced for and originally distributed by a...
starring
Brad PittWilliam Bradley "Brad" Pitt is an American actor and film producer. He has been cited as one of the world's most attractive men, a label that entices the media to report on his off-screen life...
and
Juliette LewisJuliette Lewis is an American actress and musician.-Life and career:Lewis was born in Los Angeles, California to Geoffrey Lewis, an actor, and Glenis Duggan Batley, a graphic designer...
. It touches on the debate concerning the death penalty. It is based on a true story.
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, MississippiHarrison County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of 2000, the population was 189,601. Its county seats are Biloxi and Gulfport. Harrison County is named for U.S...
on June 3 1982.
Cannaday (born September 8, 1965) was charged with robbery, kidnapping, and homicide.
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Too Young to Die? is a 1990
television movieA television movie is a feature film that is produced for and originally distributed by a...
starring
Brad PittWilliam Bradley "Brad" Pitt is an American actor and film producer. He has been cited as one of the world's most attractive men, a label that entices the media to report on his off-screen life...
and
Juliette LewisJuliette Lewis is an American actress and musician.-Life and career:Lewis was born in Los Angeles, California to Geoffrey Lewis, an actor, and Glenis Duggan Batley, a graphic designer...
. It touches on the debate concerning the death 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, MississippiHarrison County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of 2000, the population was 189,601. Its county seats are Biloxi and Gulfport. Harrison County is named for U.S...
on June 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 by
lethal injectionLethal injection refers to the practice of injecting a criminal with a fatal dose of drugs for the express purpose of executing the subject...
. 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 was released on parole on March 9 2008.
Her co-defendant, David Randolph Gray (born May 29 1954) was charged with aggravated 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 CourtThe Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States, and leads the federal judiciary. It consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and eight Associate Justices, who are nominated by the President and confirmed with the "advice and consent" of the Senate...
, 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).
Cast
- Michael Tucker
Michael Tucker may refer to:*Michael Tucker , *Michael Tucker , Major League Baseball outfielder*Michael Tucker , film director*Michael S. Tucker, American Army general*Mick Tucker of Sweet...
- as - Buddy Thornton
- Juliette Lewis
Juliette Lewis is an American actress and musician.-Life and career:Lewis was born in Los Angeles, California to Geoffrey Lewis, an actor, and Glenis Duggan Batley, a graphic designer...
- as - Amanda Sue Bradley
- Brad Pitt
William Bradley "Brad" Pitt is an American actor and film producer. He has been cited as one of the world's most attractive men, a label that entices the media to report on his off-screen life...
- as - Billy Canton
- Alan Fudge
Alan Fudge is an American actor known for being part of the cast of four television programs: Man from Atlantis, Eischied, Paper Dolls, and Bodies of Evidence, along with a recurring role on 7th Heaven.Fudge was born in Wichita, Kansas...
- as - D.A. Mark Calhoun
- Emily Longstreth - as - Jean Glessner
- Laurie O'Brien
Born: Laurie O'Brien is a professionally trained actress who started her career in 1982. She is married to Carl Weintraub. Her son Barry O'Brien also wrote the Muppet Babies episode "By the Book".-Roles:* St. Elsewhere - Mrs...
- as - Wanda Bradley Sledge
- Yvette Heyden - as - Annie Meacham
- Tom Everett
Tom Everett is an American actor known for his performances in Political films such as Air Force One and Thirteen Days , and television shows such as Law & Order.-Film:-TV:...
- as - Judge Harper
- Michael O'Keefe
Michael Raymond O'Keefe is an Academy Award-nominated American film and television actor.-Early life:O'Keefe was born Raymond Peter O'Keefe, Jr. in Mount Vernon, New York, the oldest of seven children in a devoutly Roman Catholic Irish American family. His father was a law professor at Fordham...
- 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 - Pastor
Further reading
- Kuncl, Tom, and Paul Einstein, (1990). - Ladies Who Kill. - New York, New York: Pinnacle Books. - ISBN 1558172491
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