Death Row Stories

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In America CNN is by and large still a cable news outlet, but a movement under the leadership of network president Jeff Zucker to provide more alternative, entertainment-based programming is clearly afoot, and `Death Row Stories' is a prime example. The eight-part documentary - the result of a collaboration with Academy Award-winning directors Robert Redford (`Ordinary People') and Alex Gibney (`Taxi to the Dark Side') - revisits compelling capital murder cases in the US, detailing the twists and turns involved in each as a thought-provoking exercise on the death penalty and the American justice system. `Dead Man Walking' Oscar winner Susan Sarandon is the narrator. Redford's Sundance Productions also partnered with CNN for the documentary series `Chicagoland'.

The Boy's Story: Episode Image
Episode 1The Boy's Story

After a salesman is brutally murdered in broad daylight in Cleveland and a paperboy tells police he witnessed the killing, two teenage brothers and their friend are arrested.

Web of Lies: Episode Image
Episode 2Web of Lies

A murder in rural Mississippi lands Marlon Howell on death row. Convicted on the word of two defendants and an eyewitness with a questionable past, he maintains his innocence.

A Prison of His Own: Episode Image
Episode 3A Prison of His Own

After getting arrested for driving under the influence, Nick Yarris tries to negotiate a deal with police, offering up information about a gruesome kidnapping and murder.

A Woman Wronged: Episode Image
Episode 4A Woman Wronged

When a man is found dead in his rural Mississippi home, shot with his own pistol, his teenage son claims his hospitalised mother hired the boy's friend to shoot her husband.

Body of Evidence: Episode Image
Episode 5Body of Evidence

When the body of missing teenager Melissa Trotter is found in a Texas forest, police zero in on Larry Swearingen, who was last seen with Melissa before she disappeared.

Murder in Broad Daylight: Episode Image
Episode 6Murder in Broad Daylight

Two men are shot at point blank range on Chicago's South Side, and the execution-style hit leads to the conviction of Nathson Fields, member of the El Rukn gang.

Caught on Tape: Episode Image
Episode 7Caught on Tape

The brutal murder of a young couple inside their secluded Florida home leaves police baffled. Months later, a woman comes forward to implicate her ex-husband, Joe Martinez.

Memory of a Murder: Episode Image
Episode 8Memory of a Murder

After a masked attacker shoots up an apartment in Bucyrus, Ohio, leaving three dead and two children clinging to life, police close in on local drug dealer Kevin Keith.

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