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Just Mercy is a 2019 American biographical legal drama film co-written and directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and starring Michael B. Jordan as Bryan Stevenson, Jamie Foxx as Walter McMillian, Rob Morgan, Tim Blake Nelson, Rafe Spall, and Brie Larson. It explores the work of young defense attorney Bryan Stevenson who represents poor people on ...
I Am a Killer. I Am a Killer is a television documentary series on Netflix and Crime+Investigation UK that features interviews with death row inmates. [1][2] Season 2 aired in the United Kingdom in 2019 and aired internationally on Netflix from 31 January 2020. [3] On 30 August 2022 Season 3 aired on Netflix in the United States. [4]
As of July 1, 2024, there were 2,213 death row inmates in the United States, including 49 women. [1] The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [2]
The Varner Unit, pictured here, houses the State of Arkansas death row for men. Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Arkansas. Since 1820, a total of 505 individuals have been executed. According to the Arkansas Department of Correction, as of September, 10 2024, a total of 26 men were under a sentence of death in the state.
Fourteen Days in May is a documentary film directed by Paul Hamann and originally shown on television by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in 1987. [1] The programme recounts the final days before the execution of Edward Earl Johnson , an American prisoner convicted of rape and murder and imprisoned in the Mississippi State Penitentiary .
Factor 8: The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal is a feature-length documentary by Arkansas filmmaker and investigative journalist, Kelly Duda, released in 2005.Through interviews and the presentation of documents and footage, Duda alleged that in the 1970s and 1980s, the Arkansas prison system profited from selling blood plasma from inmates infected with viral hepatitis and HIV.
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills is a 1996 American documentary film directed, produced and edited by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky about the trials of the West Memphis Three, three teenage youths accused of the May 1993 murders and sexual mutilation of three prepubescent boys as a part of an alleged satanic ritual in West Memphis, Arkansas.
Cummins Unit serves as a parent unit for male prisoners and houses the State of Arkansas execution chamber. Male death row inmates are located at the Varner Unit's Supermax, while the executions are performed at the Cummins Unit, adjacent to Varner. [38] The female death row is located at the McPherson Unit. In 1999 the female death row was ...