Death Row Stories

I have to say that every human being can be portrayed sympathetically, even the most vile, brutal people who dismember children for fun, callously knife to death women, and commit the most heinous crimes, if you do no more than a quick drive-by of their actual crime.

You literally could put Stalin, Pol Pot, Hitler, or Mao on this show the way the presentations are done, and have people saying: "Oh they were not so bad."

Also the one case I watched were doubt was cast on the conviction, there was no mention that the death row inmate had a prior second degree murder (pled down from first) and a prior manslaughter pled down from first/second murder. The implication by leaving out that fact was this was some kind of good guy who may have been the victim of a miscarriage of justice -- when his hyper violent priors show he was an unmitigated and habitually lethally violent : "super predator."

Really people on death row are "repentant" -- and that is a surprise? What does it mean when a 40 year old kidnaps, brutally rapes and sodomizes and then and beats to death a 14 year old girl and is "repentant" as his penalty awaits?

Watched one episode (ep 7) and couldn't stomach the rest.

Woman raped and murdered, along with her child.

Prime suspect looks clearly guilty.

He is described as a lovely man, family man, etc throughout.

Years later: DNA evidence from the rape kit... it's him.

He now changes his story and tries to state that he had consensual sex with her but never killed her - disgusting and disgraceful.

Talking heads: I still think he is innocent.

Blimey. I've seen enough.

The show is that biased that they could portray the Devil as innocent.

I love Susan Sarandon as the narrator!!! I've literally seen every season every episode at least twice!

We need to have laws to protect people regardless of their race, ethnicity and financial standing.

The judicial system has repeatedly failed people of colour and minorities.

People have been executed for crimes they didn't commit.

People have been forced to confess to crime they didn't commit.

We must end the capital punishment if we want to be a first world country.

There's so much wrong with the system that a few short documentaries here and there not going to do justice.

We have to treat people as a humanly as possible regardless of our biases.

An Extremely powerful documentary. We all have to stay educated about this topic.

The show is decent but would be much better if it isn't biased towards the wronged inmate. Police and a handful of defense lawyers are portrayed as the bad.