You’ve got him loving her more than he loves you. Life and Death Row s3e3: Love Triangle III, rozzer’s interrogation of Emilia
His relationship with Heather didn’t bother me. ibid. Emilia
But when he finally broke and told us that he could take us where the body was this was a big break in the case. Life and Death Row s3e4: Love Triangle IV, rozzer
Knowing now that Heather might be buried in her [Emilia’s] back yard raised our suspicions about Emilia once again. ibid.
I didn’t put her in a hole. ibid. Joshua
Why is Heather’s body in your [Emilia] back yard? Life and Death Row s3e5: Love Triangle V, rozzer
I know there’s more … You were there while she was still alive. ibid. rozzer to Emilia
I’m not going to stoop to that kind of a level over a man. Life and Death Row s3e6: Love Triangle VI, Emilia to rozzer
It was all hearsay and it was held against me. ibid. Emilia to came
Josh basically told us the story … He and Emilia set it up. Life and Death Row s3e7: Love Triangle VII, rozzer
She [Emilia] used a whole roll of duct-tape. ibid. Josh
We needed that directly from her [Emilia]. Life and Death Row s3e8: Love Triangle VIII, rozzer
We put the bag over her head. We tried to snap her neck, that didn’t work. ibid. Emilia, car bugged
Joshua Fulgham pleaded guilty to the murder of Heather Strong and was sentenced to life without parole … In June 2017 Emilia’s sentence was commuted to life without parole. ibid. captions
I, death row inmate, Stacey Johnson, at the present moment am being housed at the Cummins Unit feet away from the death chamber. The State of Arkansas is going to commit mass murder to kill eight men in ten days because their drug is gonna run out. So I ask you: who’s the murderer? The unprecedented number of executions and divided the state. Now the eight inmates are fighting for their lives. Life and Death Row : The Mass Execution I, BBC 2018
Each inmate is entitled to plead to the governor to spare their life at a hearing with the parole board. ibid.
‘The death penalty is political. I think the Governor is doing these executions in order to make a name for himself.’ Life and Death Row: The Mass Execution II, Johnson
‘The local politicians tried to execute me. Even when DNA testing came out that excluded me and the other two men that they had convicted from the scene of the crime they still kept trying to kill me.’ ibid. Damien Echols
The governor of Arkansas has scheduled 8 men to die within 10 days of each other. The schedule is to beat the expiration date of a lethal injection drug called Midazolam. Midazolam has been blamed for a number of executions that have gone wrong. Life and Death Row: The Mass Execution III, captions
Next in line to die are Jack Jones and Marcel Williams. ibid.
The last two men scheduled to die are Jason McGehee and Kenneth Williams. Life and Death Row: The Mass Execution IV
In 2004 former US marine John Henry Ramirez stabbed and killed Pablo Castro. He was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death. After 8 years on Texas death row John will be executed in 7 days. John is making a final appeal to halt his execution. Life and Death Row: In Cold Blood
‘It was just a bad day and a bunch of wrong choices on my part.’ ibid. Ramirez
My name’s Ivan Cantu. I’m 50 year old … I was wrongfully convicted by a jury in Collin County for Capital Murder. Life and Death Row s4e1: True Conviction
In the US, Texas executes more prisoners than any other state. In seven days it is due to hold its first execution of 2024. ibid. caption
Cantu’s girlfriend and her brother testified he committed the murders. ibid. TV news
There is a strong possibility that Ivan was set up. ibid. podcast
Sister Helen Prejean is a renowned anti-death penalty campaigner, having worked with Death Row inmates for over 40 years. ibid. caption
‘Two key witnesses that the state put up gave false testimony.’ ibid. Sister Prejean
‘No-one at trial had ever seen Ivan with a gun.’ ibid. podcast
‘You come down to this essential thing about human beings. Are human beings worth more than the worst thing they’ve ever done?’ ibid.
Texas Death Row inmate Ivan Cantu was executed by lethal injection. ibid. Justice Department announcement
September 24th 2021 6:52 a.m. Nassau County, Florida: [TV News]: We have live coverage as the manhunt continues the search for this man accused of shooting a Nassau County deputy. Life & Death Row s4e2: Cop Killer
Seven hours earlier, police officer Joshua Myers was shot and killed during a routine traffic stop. The shooter [Patrick McDowell] is quickly identified as a local man who served in the US Marine Corps. ibid. caption
He [McDowell] was self-medicating for the PDSD. ibid. defense brief
He was living a lifestyle of criminality. ibid. rozzer
Over the next 5 days 50 witnesses are called to testify to McDowell’s good character. ibid. caption
Basically, he’s going to ask for death. ibid.
22 years ago Ramiro Gonzales admitted to killing 18-year-old Bridget Townsend. Life & Death Row s4e3: Murder on the Ranch
The Board of Pardons and Paraoles has unanimously rejected Gonzales’ petition for both life without parole and a stay of execution. ibid.
This film is about the death penalty in the state of Mississippi and the effect it has on the staff and inmates as time runs out for one twenty-six-year-old man: Edward Earl Johnson. Johnson has been appealing against his sentence for eight years in the United States’ courts. He was convicted in 1979 of killing a Mississippi town marshal and the attempted rape of a 60-year-old woman. He has spent the last eight years on this death row and has always professed his innocence. Fourteen Days in May, BBC 1987
At the scene of the crime where Johnson allegedly robbed a 60 year old woman and killed a local town marshal an old Buick car was seen. Because Johnson owned a Buick he was arrested with others and put in front of an identity parade. The woman who was robbed and nearly raped had known Edward Johnson for most of his life. ibid.
They wrote out a confession and asked Johnson to sign it. ibid.
Today there are over 50 countries around the world which continue to use the death penalty … It is only a decade since capital punishment was finally removed from British law. Timeshift: Crime and Punishment: The Story of Capital Punishment, BBC 2018
For over 200 years a moral battle raged about whether the state has the right to execute. ibid.
But it was in the late 18th century that the death penalty was applied most widely. ibid.
The participation of the crowd itself which appeared to revel in a macabre party atmosphere. ibid.
Between 1770 and 1830 over 35,000 people were sentenced to death. But only one in ten were actually executed. ibid.
The Victorians were still committed to retaining the death penalty for those convicted of murder. ibid.
The Victorians began to build large prisons across Britain as place of both punishment and reform. ibid.
Pierrepoint became a familiar face to British audiences through numerous television interviews. ibid.
There was still widespread support for capital punishment. ibid.
In 1969 parliament voted overwhelmingly in favour of permanently abolishing the death penalty for murder … Hanging only remained for treason and piracy. ibid.
Gary Gilmore became the first person to be executed in the US for ten years … by a firing squad in Utah. ibid.
In 1955 Ruth Ellis shot her lover to death and stood trial for murder. The decision to execute this twenty-eight year old, a mother of two children, fuelled what was already a fierce debate over capital punishment. Crime & Punishment: A Timewatch Guide, BBC 2019
National Campaign for the Abolition of Capital Punishment: ‘To kill a man because you’re angry with him for what he’s done is too close to the thing he’s done himself.’ ibid. Gerald Gardiner WC
It wasn’t until 1998 that it was finally removed from the statute book for all types of crime. ibid.
Bentley: In retrospect it was this case that really spelled the end for capital punishment. ibid.
Many people are familiar with the campaign to abolish the death penalty. In fact, it has already been abolished in most countries. Even the staunchest advocates of capital punishment acknowledge the fact that the death penalty faces serious challenges. Few people find life without the death penalty difficult to imagine. Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?