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Court TV Examines Capital Punishment
October 30-November
3. 10pm ET/PT
Starting
Monday, October 30th, Court TV takes a week-long look
at the political and personal issues that define the current
debate on capital punishment. The week features a two-part
special, "The Death Penalty: Who Lives, Who Dies?," hosted
by ABC News Nightline's Ted Koppel; a deeply personal
look at the death penalty."Death in the Family;" and two
Mugshots episodes: Aileen Wuornos and Richard Ramirez.
For more Court TV.com death penalty coverage.
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CTV
reporter Helen Lucaitis describing her
experience of watching an execution
at Greensville Correctional Center,
Jarratt, Virginia. |
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Confession
of Karla Faye Tucker.
Tucker,
who was sentenced to death for bludgeoning
two people with a pickaxe, discusses
the responsibility and consequences
of criminal actions. (Note: On February
3, 1998, Tucker became the second
woman executed in the U.S. since the
Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment
in 1976.)
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Documentary "Witness to an Execution," recently broadcast on NPR, looks at execution through the "emotional price paid by the men and women who participate in - or witness - the fearful business of executing their fellow beings," (The New York Times) in Texas. |
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History of Execution
Methods in the U. S. (Research from the
Death Penalty Information Center)
Professor
James Liebman's Columbia Law School study:
"A Broken System: Error Rates in Capital
Cases, 1973-1995" concludes that serious
errors are "substantially undermining the
reliability of capital verdicts" Ted
Koppel interviewed Liebman in Court TV's
"Death Penalty: Who Lives, Who Dies?"
"Survey
of the Federal Death Penalty System," This
report was released by the Department of
Justice in September 2000.
Interviews from Court TV's "Cruel and Unusual
Punishment":
- Transcript of an interview with death
row inmate James Bethard made a few months
prior to his execution for involvement
in a multiple homicide in Groveton, Texas.
Bethard discusses his 15 years on death
row, the death penalty, and the effect
the ordeal has had on himself and his
family. In 3 parts. -
Part
1
Part
2
Part
3
- Transcript
of an interview with Joe Price, Graveton,
Texas, district attorney in who successfully
prosecuted James Bethard. Price discusses
his support of the death penalty.
A
history of U.S. executions and a discussion
of significant rulings on the death penalty.
A
moral argument against the death penalty.
"Death Is Not The Answer" a statement by the
New York State Catholic Bishops, February
15, 1994. |
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