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The documentary crew, given access to the prison warden, guards and chaplain and to Johnson and his family, filmed the last days of Johnson's life in detail. The documentary argues against the death penalty and maintains that capital punishment is disproportionately applied to African-Americans convicted of crimes against whites .
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. [4]
Pruett started chanting during the execution and was visibly scared. Pruett was represented by the Texas Innocence Network and his attorneys pursued his innocence claim by appealing the denial of his DNA relief through the courts. [7] While in the Texas death row at the Polunsky Unit near Livingston, [8] Pruett received 4 stays of execution.
Alfred Bourgeois, 56, a Louisiana truck driver who killed his 2-year-old daughter in 2002, was put to death Friday night in the second federal execution carried out this week. Bourgeois was ...
South Carolina has executed its first death row inmate in 13 years for the murder of a convenience store clerk in 1997.. Khalil Divine Black Sun Allah, 46, died by lethal injection on Friday ...
Perry continued to maintain his innocence on death row. Shortly before his execution, the case became the subject of Werner Herzog's documentary, Into the Abyss. Herzog said he reviewed the case beforehand, and that the proof of guilt in the case was overwhelming. [3] Perry was executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit on July 1, 2010 ...
Oklahoma is set to execute one of the nation's longest-serving death row inmates. An admitted psychopath, Richard Norman Rojem Jr., has been on death row almost 40 years.He faces a lethal ...
Louisiana State Penitentiary, where Martin was confined and executed. In November 1999, Martin and three other inmates on death row attempted to escape from prison. Using smuggled hacksaw blades, the four men cut through their cell doors and a steel-barred window. The men were caught about two miles from their cells and were returned to death row.