Cantrell arranges a meeting with a CIA contact and brings Rice.
Shelton kills his cellmate using the steak’s bone, forcing the warden to secure him in solitary confinement. Once he has his meal, Shelton provides a set of coordinates, where Rice and the others find Darby’s lawyer, buried alive but suffocated when his air supply ran out while Shelton’s lunch was being delayed. Rice agrees, though the lunch is delayed by a few minutes due to the warden’s pedantic security measures. Shelton demands a porterhouse steak lunch be delivered to his cell by a specific time, in return for telling where to find Darby’s lawyer, who was reported missing three days earlier. The judge jails Shelton for contempt of court. He successfully argues that he should be granted bail, then berates the judge for accepting the “bullshit” legal precedents he himself cited and for being too eager to let madmen and murderers back on the street. But District Attorney Jonas Cantrell (Bruce McGill) orders Rice to make a deal. He initially refuses to bargain with Shelton in order to get a confession. Despite knowing the evidence is weak, Shelton surrenders himself into police custody, where he points out the flaws in Rice’s case against him.Īs he leaves the interrogation room, Rice receives a phone call from his wife, and learns that Shelton had sent a copy of the Snuff film of Darby’s demise to his house, traumatising his daughter. When Darby’s remains are found, circumstantial evidence tentatively ties his death to Shelton. He straps Darby to a table and slowly dismembers him as revenge for murdering his wife and daughter, videorecording the gory proceedings. Shelton, disguised as a cop, reveals himself as the caller and paralyzes Darby with puffer fish venom. An anonymous caller alerts Darby as the police draw near, and directs him to a remote location.
Evidence relating to tampering with the drug implicates Darby. Unknown to the prosecutors and the witnesses, the cardiotoxic drug usually used in executions has been replaced with ananticonvulsant, causing Ames to die an extremely painful death. Ten years later, Ames’s time on death row is up. Shelton feels betrayed by Rice’s actions and by the justice system in general.
Unwilling to take a chance on lowering his high conviction rate, he makes a deal with Darby, letting him plead guilty to a lesser charge and receive a reduced sentence in return for testifying against Ames.Īmes is found guilty and is sentenced to death. Prosecutor Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx) is unable to use DNA hard evidence to securely convict both accused. In a 1999 Philadelphia home invasion, Clarence James Darby (Christian Stolte) and his accomplice Rupert Ames (Josh Stewart) kill the wife and daughter of Clyde Alexander Shelton (Gerard Butler) before his eyes.
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