Dead Man Walking (1995) - 7 mistakes

Continuity: The shoulder straps disappear after Matthew's death.

Factual error: Almost at the end of the film, Poinset is marched to the death chamber, with Prejean's hand on his shoulder. They are led past an open door - which leads to the viewing room, where the witnesses will congregate. Some of them are already in the room. This is nonsense - it is inviting a bereaved relative to attack the condemned man. In fact the corridor to the death chamber goes nowhere near the witnesses' area, and Prejean would have had to have been escorted back through two guarded doors to reach it.

Continuity: When Sister Helen is being pulled over for speeding, in the view through the rear view mirror, the cop car behind her is driving on the left side of the road, with the police officer driving in the right front seat, on a straight road with a solid center line. In the next shot, both cars are on the right side of the road, with the police officer sitting in the left front seat, on a curvy road with a dashed center line.

Visible crew/equipment: When Sister Helen and Mr. Delacroix are first speaking in his living room, a crew member wanders into the background outside the window and then quickly runs out.

Continuity: In some scenes, where Helen is talking to Matthew through the grate, her face is pressed up against the wires, but in reverse angle shots it is not.

Factual error: While Louisiana's lethal injection gurney is capable of being put in an upright position, inmates are only strapped to it when it is down.

Deliberate "mistake": The chemicals used in lethal injections in Louisiana are administered manually, not by a machine as in the movie.