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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]
Page and Piper later pleaded guilty to and were convicted of first degree felony murder. They were both sentenced to death, while Hoadley received a life sentence. [5] [6] Page was executed by lethal injection on July 11, 2007, while Piper remains on death row. [7] He is the only person on death row in South Dakota. [3] [8]
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.
Universal Pictures Content Group and Passion Pictures have wrapped on a new documentary about the nun who inspired 1995 Oscar-winning hit “Dead Man Walking,” Variety can exclusively confirm.
In 2001, Savidge wrote and produced Welcome to Death Row, a documentary about Death Row Records, which was later turned into a book of the same name. [2] He is known for his works in the restored version of The Harder They Come (restored in 2006) and Straight Outta Compton (2015), for which he co-wrote the original draft of the screenplay and also served as one of its executive producers.
The Fear of 13 is a 2015 British documentary film by David Sington. [1] It tells the story of the American, Nick Yarris, who was convicted and sentenced to capital punishment for a 1981 kidnapping, rape and murder, and spent 22 years on death row in Pennsylvania. Yarris was released in 2004 when DNA evidence established his innocence. [2]
The third, "Working", discusses the processes the authors used to get their research material, [5] and ethics-based arguments regarding the death penalty. [2] The book includes a DVD containing a 1979 documentary, [2] Death Row, including interviews of Ellis Unit capital punishment prisoners, made by the authors. Pike called it "exceptional".
The first season examines the death row cases of Darlie Routier and Julius Jones and seeks to trace the path that led both Routier and Jones to their places on death row, while taking a deep look into their personal stories. [2] Jones' sentence has since been commuted to life without parole while Routier remains on death row. [3]