Life and Death Row
2018 · BBC Three / BBC Two · Director / Producer / Camera
A story of capital punishment through the people whose lives have been shaped by it. Inside Texas’s Polunsky Unit, John Henry Ramirez, 32, has seven days left before his execution by lethal injection.
A former US Marine, he asks to meet the son he fathered while on the run. His victim’s family relive the brutal murder of their father. Then, as the execution date closes in, everything changes.
THE TELEGRAPH
“An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. In recent decades, this Biblical phrase has lost its currency in Britain. Those in favour of bringing back the death penalty are regarded as cranks, and it is rare to hear the issue even debated in the public square.” Jake Wallis Simons
THE GUARDIAN
Described Life and Death Row as “The award-winning court-case documentary”.