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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]
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]
Follows the case of death row inmate Daniel Lee Lopez, who was convicted of murdering a Corpus Christi city police officer by hitting him with his SUV as he was trying to evade capture following a routine traffic stop. The programme follows, Lopez, his family and city officials in the weeks and months leading up to and after his execution.
The series revolves around 53-year old Dale Wayne Sigler; he killed John Zeltner, a Subway employee, in Arlington, Texas in April 1990. He was sentenced to death in 1991, but his death sentence was changed to life three years later because his lawyers argued that he should be retroactively considered under the then-new jury selection rules.
Damien Echols, who as one of the West Memphis 3 was convicted and served nearly two decades in prison before being released in part based on DNA evidence, wrote about the series in The Huffington Post: "Rectify is the story of a man who was sentenced to death for a crime he didn't commit, and spent 19 years on death row before getting out. Much ...
A death row inmate's letters: Read vulnerable, angry thoughts written by Freddie Owens Fernando Cervantes Jr. and JJ Hensley, USA TODAY September 19, 2024 at 6:16 PM
Hideko Hakamada, sister of former boxer Iwao Hakamada who has been on death row in Japan for 47 years, shows a picture of her young brother Iwao during an interview outside the Tokyo Detention ...
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.