Butterfly

Frenchman Henri Charriere was unjustly convicted of murder in 1931, spent twelve years in a penal colony on the Devil's Islands, escaped, and twenty years later told his story in a best-selling book, the film version of which, starring Steve McQueen, has gone around the world.

"Defendant, since the jurors answered 'yes' to all questions except one, whether the act was intentional, you are sentenced to hard labor for life."