Fourteen Days in May
Documentary
5.2/10
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|87 min
Release Date: 1987-11-11
Overview - A camera crew follows Edward Earl Johnson, a man falsely convicted of rape and murder, during his last 14 days on death row. Everyone involved is interviewed, Johnson himself, his family, the warden, prison guards and other inmates. We also witness the futile attempts by his attorney to save his life.
Production Companies
BBC
User Reviews
CinemaSerf
7/10
If there was ever to be a documentary to convince us of the profound flaws of a legal system that implements the death penalty, then this might be it. James Earl Johnson has been on death row for eight years following his conviction for the murder of a local deputy and the attempted rape of a sixty year old woman. Both were white, but the extent to which that might have mattered when the charges a...
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