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Pages in category "Documentary films about capital punishment in the United States" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Documentary films about capital punishment (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Films about capital punishment" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 280 total.
On Death Row is a television mini-series written and directed by Werner Herzog about capital punishment in the United States. The series grew out of the same project which produced Herzog's documentary film Into the Abyss. The series first aired in the United Kingdom on March 22, 2012, on Channel 4. [2]
One of the main arguments against the use of capital punishment in the United States is that there has been a long history of botched executions. University of Colorado Boulder Professor Michael L. Radelet described a "botched execution" as an execution that causes the prisoner to suffer for a long period of time before they die. [294]
The programme features attorney Clive Stafford Smith, an advocate against capital punishment. Fourteen Days in May won a British Film Institute Grierson Award and a top prize at the Festival dei Populi. It has been shown in many countries but has only appeared in an abbreviated form in the United States, on HBO. Hamann disowned this shortened ...
Only ever used by the United States and Philippines. Only South Carolina has it as the primary method. Now only legal in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Tennessee as a secondary method. Gas chamber (including nitrogen hypoxia) Only ever used by the United States and Lithuania. First used in the United ...
Jurors deliberating on whether gunman James Holmes should be executed for the Colorado cinema massacre reached a verdict on Friday after watching a video of the body-strewn theater recorded after ...
In the United States, 23 of the 50 states and Washington, D.C. ban capital punishment. In the United Kingdom, it was abolished for murder (leaving only treason, piracy with violence , arson in royal dockyards and a number of wartime military offences as capital crimes) for a five-year experiment in 1965 and permanently in 1969, the last ...