A recent study in the United States found that a black man, convicted of killing a white, is over four times as likely to receive the death penalty than a white who had killed a black. There is one crime on the period of Edward Earl Johnson, a 26-year-old Mississippi black man convicted of killing a white town marshal. He was convicted on the sole evidence of signing a confession he had no written. Johnson has always denied the killing and has been appealing his death sentence for eight years in the U.S. courts. The film is about the death penalty as administered in the state of Mississippi, the gas chamber, and the effect it has on the Death Row staff and inmates as the time runs out for one young man… This documentary attracted much praise on transmission in the British media. H.B.O. hopes to transmit it in the U.S. soon.
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