the idea of in the name of the people be good and a murderer doesn not want his only daughter to end up in an institution and ask the parent of the girl he kill to take care of his daughter . and you could expect of the actor and especially scott bakula to do some good acting and unfortunately they do not . in the name of the people turn out to be the regular friday night tearjerker . the flashback with the girl that be kill be pretty pathetic and at a certain stage you can just predict what the actor will say . if you want to watch a good film about this subject then watch dean man walking .