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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.
In the early morning hours of November 1, 2001, 48-year-old Kent Heitholt was murdered in the parking lot of the Columbia Daily Tribune, where he worked as a sports editor. He was last seen alive by co-worker Michael Boyd, who told police that he had a work-related conversation with Heitholt in the parking lot between 2:12 and 2:20 a.m. [ 6 ]
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Two days later, Porter was released from prison on bail, after having spent 17 years on death row. The state dropped the charges against him the next month. In 1999 Alstory Simon was formally charged with the two murders. In September 1999, Simon pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder and was sentenced to 37 ½ years in prison. [5]
The People vs. Paul Crump is a 1962 documentary about the prisoner Paul Crump who was on death row for robbery and murder. [3]The film was made for Chicago television and was highly praised and crucial to the career of its director William Friedkin, helping him get an agent and jobs making documentaries for David Wolper, and then an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. [4]
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]