@article{1356259,
      recid = {1356259},
      author = {Trombley, Stephen. and Eadie, Bruce.},
      title = {Raising hell the life of A.J. Bannister / [electronic  resource] :},
      publisher = {Filmakers Library,},
      address = {New York, NY :},
      pages = {1 online resource (27 min.).},
      year = {2000},
      note = {Originally released as DVD.},
      abstract = {This is a contemporary story of crime and punishment in  the Midwest. It tells the story of death-row inmate Alan  (A.J.) Bannister, who killed a man in a trailer park in a  struggle over a gun. The film reconstructs his troubled  life from his childhood in a rural, working class community  in central Illinois, where he was a good student and active  in sports, to his gradual descent into a life of petty  crime In his three years of researching the case, the  filmmaker uncovered startling new evidence that the killing  was not a contract killing, as the prosecution asserted,  but second degree murder, which would not carry the death  sentence. Raising Hell approaches a tense climax as A.J. s  execution date is set. As the day approaches, the viewer is  taken inside the death watch cell to experience the  countdown. His wife and mother, his friends, the film crew  and prison staff have made their final preparations when  A.J. is granted a stay of execution, two hours before he is  scheduled to die.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1356259},
}