The true story was almost custom-made for Hollywood. A powerful man convinces his nephew to marry into a wealthy family, and the two conspire to kill four of the bride’s relatives to inherit their fortune. Then, they begin slowly poisoning the loving, unsuspecting wife.
The impact of book bans on Scholastic book fairs The Republican majority has also made it illegal to explain how slavery was the original sin of the U.S. Constitution. Teachers must say slavery was a deviation from American values, even though Southerners forced Thomas Jefferson to cut a proposed part of the Declaration of Independence that called for abolition. The Constitution ordered that enslaved people only count as three-fifths of a human. Pretty originalist to me.
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