Death SentencesJapan, 1980s: A special police squad is tracking down one of the afflicted to recover the stuff. Although the operation seems like a drug bust, the stuff is actually some kind of text. Death Sentencesa work of science fiction that shares its conceit with the major motion picture The Ringtells the story of a mysterious surrealist poem, penned in the 1940s, which, through low tech circulation across time, kills its readers, including Arshile Gorky and