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14 Days in May (1987 Video)

aka: Fourteen Days in May

Director

Paul Harmann

Producer

Paul Harmann

Subject

Law

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 90 min., 1999 sale: £6.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Records the last 14 days in the life of death row inmate Edward Earl Johnson, up until 15 minutes prior to his execution in May 1987. Shows how a scheduled execution affects prisoners, prison personnel and...

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Dna in the Dock (1995 Video)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1997 sale: £19.95 (+VAT +p&p)

Explores the civil liberties issues surrounding DNA testing and asks whether DNA should be accepted as authoritative scientific evidence in court cases. Looks at individuals who have been convicted of crimes...

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Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1993 Video)

Director

Nicholas Broomfield

Producer

Nicholas Broomfield; Rita Oord

Subject

Media studies; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 85 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

A documentary about Aileen Wuornos, claimed to be the world’s first convicted female serial killer, who is currently on Death Row in the Florida State Penitentiary. It raises the question of whether the...

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Smallpox on Death Row (1997 Video)

Producer

Bettina Lerner

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Although officially eradicated as a disease, the last samples of the smallpox virus, now held in the two top security laboratories in the USA and Siberia, are to be destroyed. But a debate has erupted over...

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Chimps on Death Row (1998 Video)

Producer

Sam Roberts

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the fate of chimpanzees used for scientific experiments, now no longer needed. In the past, they were used to develop aircraft ejection seats, undergo space travel experiments, and test vaccines...

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View to a Kill, A (1996 Video)

Director

Rod Williams

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1997 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Follows the Kelley family of Texas, who exercised a new state right to watch the execution of the man who brutally killed their children Kara and Mark in 1988. Shows their week leading up to the execution,...

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Mumia Abu-Jamal reprieve (1995)

Genre

Interview; News report; Speech

London News Washington correspondent Simon Marks reports on a temporary reprieve in the United States for a convicted murderer who was due to be executed on 17/08/95. Mumia Abu-Jamal has been on...

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Thin Blue Line, The (1988)

Director

Errol Morris

Producer

Mark Lipson

Subject

Film studies; Law

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £15.99

While researching another project, filmmaker Errol Morris became fascinated by the case of Randall Dale Adams, a man on death row for the murder of a policeman in 1976. Convinced of his innocence, Morris...

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Paul Condon accused of racism (1995)

Genre

Interview; News report

Paul Chapman reports on a row involving Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Condon after he suggested that the majority of muggings in London were committed by young black males. The black community...

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Death of a Princess (1981 Video)

Director

Antony Thomas

Producer

Martin McKeand; Antony Thomas

Subject

Law

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 120 min.

Ostensibly about the execution for adultery in 1977 of the Saudi Princess Mis’ahl, but the film became the subject of a major diplomatic row between Britain and Soudi Arabia. Its importance lies both in...

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