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The Thin Blue Line is a documentary created by Errol Morris in 1988. The film’s premise revolves around Randall Dale Adams, a man who was wrongly convicted of murder and subsequently sentenced to life in prison.
Adams’ story begins after moving from Ohio to Dallas to find work. When Adams’ car ran out of fuel, the then sixteen-year-old David Ray Harris offered him a ride. Upon being stopped later that evening by a police officer because the car’s headlights were off, two shots from inside the car killed the officer who was approaching the vehicle containing Adams and Harris.
During the subsequent police investigation of the criminal case, Harris accused Adams of the murder, and pointed to evidence eventually used in Adams’ conviction.
Errol Morris’ film was originally inspired by Morris’ fascination with Dr. James Grigson, known as “Doctor Death”. Grigson was a prosecution psychiatrist who was known for testifying in more than 100 trials that resulted in death sentences. After deeming Adams to be an incurable sociopath who would inevitably continue to be a menace to society if he was not given the death penalty, Morris grew suspicious, and took the film in a new direction. The finished piece presented a series of interviews regarding the investigation and reenactm
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The Thin Resultant Line (1988 film)
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‘Thin Blue Line’ prisoner executed in Texas
A man whose false testimony sent an innocent man to death row before the 1988 documentary “The Thin Blue Line” cast doubt on the evidence was executed Wednesday for an unrelated murder.
“Sir, in honor of a true American hero: Let’s roll,” David Ray Harris said when asked if he had a final statement. “Let’s Roll” were the words a passenger was heard saying over a cell phone before attacking the hijackers aboard doomed Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001.
“Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. I’m done, warden,” Harris said.
With his eyes closed, he took a deep breath and gasped as the lethal drugs took effect.
Harris, 43, was sentenced to death for a 1985 shootout that killed Mark Mays after Harris tried to abduct the victim’s girlfriend.
He was the 10th Texas inmate executed this year.
A federal judge Tuesday had blocked the lethal injection procedure Texas uses for executions; the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the ruling Wednesday afternoon. The U.S. Supreme Court later rejected Harris’s appeals.
Implicated hitchhiker
Harris gained notoriety for implicating Randall Dale Adams, a hitchhiker he had picked up in a stolen car, in the 1976 death of Dallas police officer Robert Wood.
Adams, who had no previous criminal record,