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For Two Decades, Defending Death Row Inmates

The gurney used to restrain condemned prisoners during the lethal injection process is shown in the Texas death house in Huntsville, Texas. Pat Sullivan/AP Photo hide caption

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For Two Decades, Defending Death Row Inmates

For Two Decades, Defending Death Row Inmates

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Generique [From Lift To The Scaffold] Miles Davis
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'Upstairs, Downstairs' Returns To 165 Eaton Place

The first Upstairs, Downstairs miniseries covered the years from 1903 to 1909. Four additional miniseries followed, covering World War I and the 1920s. The updated version of Upstairs Downstairs includes only one original cast member, Jean Marsh — who plays Rose Buck. Jane Hilton/BBC/Masterpiece hide caption

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'Upstairs, Downstairs' Returns To 165 Eaton Place

'Upstairs, Downstairs' Returns To 165 Eaton Place

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'Your Highness': Low Comedy's Crowning Glory?

Rated X-tra-naughty: Natalie Portman, Danny McBride, James Franco and Zooey Deschanel star in a medieval sword-and-sorcery spoof that strays often into beyond-kinky territory — and plays it so resolutely straight that the profane seems downright divine. Frank Connor/Universal Pictures hide caption

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'Your Highness': Low Comedy's Crowning Glory?

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