Netflix has teamed up with Sky Vision for a new docuseries following inmates on death row as they recount their crimes and work to make amends with the families affected, including their own. The first episode investigates the 1996 shooting of Michael Lahood Jr by Maurecio Brown. Kenneth Foster was sentenced to death as an accomplice in the shooting, even after it was proved he never fired a shot. Foster’s case sparked protests demanding his sentence be commuted. something that rarely happens but when it does, exposes the unstable nature and disastrous consequences of the death penalty.
“To sit here and say I didn’t have an opportunity would be wrong” Foster explains as he describes his childhood, his parent’s drug addiction and being brought up by his grandparents. The episode is a collage of recreations, police footage and stories from the victim’s family, the prosecutor, campaigners and Foster’s grandfather.
“To sit here and say I didn’t have an opportunity would be wrong” Foster explains as he describes his childhood, his parent’s drug addiction and being brought up by his grandparents. The episode is a collage of recreations, police footage and stories from the victim’s family, the prosecutor, campaigners and Foster’s grandfather.
- 5/29/2018
- by April McIntyre
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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