Life and Death Row

A BBC documentary that follows the lives of three American citizens on death row.

10 Votes (8.3)

2014 HD 60min United Kingdom English Ended
Documentary
death row prison system

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S1E1 - Execution 2014-03-17

For two of the youngest men on death row in Texas, execution day has arrived. Victim Nikki Daniels reflects on her kidnapping ordeal by murderer Richard Cobb and battles with her conflicting desires to forgive him, while the mother of death row inmate Anthony Haynes fights to use the final 72 hours to halt her sons execution for the murder of a police officer.

S1E2 - Judgement 2014-03-24

The second film follows the trial of 26-year-old Guy Heinze Jr, with remarkable access to the jury members charged with reaching a verdict on allegations that Heinze beat his father and seven members of his family to death. As the trial progresses, there is legal manoeuvring while evidence about the brutal killings unfolds.

S1E3 - Crisis Stage 2014-03-31

The final film of the series follows 25-year-old legal student Kelly Hickman as she attempts to save two of the young killers facing execution in America.

S2E1 - Execution 2016-02-16

On March 11 2009, Daniel Lopez was pulled over for driving erratically. The dramatic car chase that ensued killed a police officer and 27-year-old Daniel was given the death penalty. Unusually for a death row prisoner, he is resisting all appeals to block his execution - which is due in five weeks time. The state-appointed attorneys for Lopez are arguing that their client is using the justice system as a form of suicide. His family are also pleading with him to fight the execution and stay alive for them. With access to Daniel, his lawyers, his parents and the widow of the police officer that Daniel killed, this film follows the lead up to execution day. Will Daniel go to his death, as he insists he wants to do, or will the people who love him be able to save him?

S2E2 - Punishment 2016-02-23

In April 2013, 18-year old Shawn Ford Jr was charged with killing his girlfriends parents with a sledgehammer. Now he is on trial for his life and a jury of twelve ordinary people must decide whether he should live or die. This film follows the court case from the inside, as both the family of the victims and the defendant struggle to come to terms with such a horrific crime. But it is the jurors who must ultimately decide Shawns fate. As the details of the shocking murders mount, can an impassioned plea for mercy from Shawns mother save her sons life?

S2E3 - Truth 2016-03-01

In January 2014, in small town America, 18 year old Justin Back is brutally murdered in his own home. Two friends - Austin Myers and Tim Mosley, both 19, are arrested and charged with his murder. Both give very different stories. Who is telling the truth? What will they individually do to save themselves from the ultimate punishment - the death penalty? With access to the filmed confessions of both boys, this film shines a disturbing light on the American criminal justice system.

S2E4 - Forgiveness 2016-06-14

T.T. Trottie is preparing himself to lose another parent. His father killed his mother 21 years ago and will be executed a week from now.

S4E1 - Episode 1 2018-02-18

In this episode we meet death row inmate Stacey Johnson, who is scheduled to be executed for a crime that he claims he didnt commit. With just weeks to go, his wife Judy and stepdaughter Tasha are doing all they can to stop the execution from going ahead. We also meet Susan, whose mother was murdered in a home invasion by inmate Don Davis in 1990. Susan has been waiting for Daviss execution for decades and wants justice to finally be carried out so she and her family can find peace.

S4E2 - Episode 2 2018-02-25

In this episode, inmate Stacey Johnson and his family are attempting to get his execution stayed on the basis that DNA testing could prove his innocence. However, the daughter of Johnsons victim, who witnessed the murder, is fighting for the execution to go ahead so she can finally put her mothers death behind her.

S4E3 - Episode 3 2018-04-04

In this episode we meet Lynn Scott, the sister of death row inmate Jack Jones - the next prisoner in line to die. Jones has severe medical problems including diabetes, which led to him having a leg amputated in prison. We also meet inmate Marcel Williams who is on death row for the rape and murder of 22-year-old Stacy Rae Errickson. With only weeks to go before Williamss execution, his attorney Jason Kearney is fighting to save his clients life, arguing that Williamss original lawyers made serious mistakes during his trial.