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The following resources provide links to recent
media documents about the death penalty. |
Deadline
http://www.deadlinethemovie.com/news/about_the_film.php
In January 2003, Republican Governor George Ryan granted blanket clemency to
all 167 people on death row in Illinois, commuting their sentences to life without
parole. With astounding access to special clemency hearings, the death row prisoners,
exonerated men and Governor Ryan himself, directors Katy Chevigny and Kirsten
Johnson bring us directly into the emotional and legal storm surrounding Ryan's
extraordinary decision. Official Seleccion Sundance Film Festival 2004. |
Heir
to an Execution
http://sundance.weblogsinc.com/entry/3733953427451586/
To most people, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are historical symbols of the
Cold War and McCarthyism. To director Ivy Meeropol, they are the grandparents
she never knew, and in this poignant documentary she works to discover
who her grandparents were as people.Official Seleccion Sundance Film Festival
2004..
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Death
Row Diaries
http://www.soundportraits.org/deathrow/
In November 1999, Sound Portraits producers David Isay and Stacy Abramson
traveled to Huntsville, Texas, to interview two men living in the Ellis Unit
of Huntsville's death row. The inmates' oral histories appear in "The
Lives They Lived," a special issue of the New York Times Magazine featuring
profiles of people who died in the previous year, and are part of an ongoing
project in which death row inmates talk about the days leading up to their
executions.
John Micheal Lamb and Sammie Felder Jr. had been on death row for 17 and
24 years respectively. They were interviewed on November 10, 1999, and were
executed shortly thereafter. |
Witness to an Execution - Recorded in Huntsville, Texas. Premiered October
20, 2000 on All Things Considered.
Witness to an Execution tells the stories of the men and women involved with
the execution of deathrow inmates at the Walls Unit in Huntsville, Texas. Narrated
by Warden Jim Willett, who oversees all Texas executions, Witness to an Execution
documents, in minute-by-minute detail, the process of carrying out an execution
by lethal injection.
Most of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice employees interviewed have witnessed
over one hundred inmates be put to death. The voices in Witness to an Execution
tell a rare story. Major Kenneth Dean, a member of the "tie-down" team,
describes the act of walking an inmate from his cell to the death chamber. Jim
Brazzil, a death house chaplain who has witnessed 114 executions, remembers inmates'
last words to him. Former corrections officer Fred Allen discusses his own mental
breakdown, caused, he says, by participating in one too many executions. One-third
of all executions in the US have taken place in Texas, since the death penalty
was reinstated in 1977.
EXCERPT VIDEO:
http://www.soundportraits.org/on-air/witness_to_an_execution/
COMPLETE AUDIO:
http://www.albany.edu/talkinghistory/archive/soundportraits-th-witness_to_an_execution-56.ram
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Missouri.net
http://www.missourinet.com/CapitalPunishment/links2.htm
Audio and visual documents from Missourinet |
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