Fourteen Days in May: The Most Compelling Death Penalty Documentary Ever Made

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REMEMBER TO SUBSCRIBE! → https://bit.ly/2CwckC3 - With a growing curiosity about the way we translate real life to the screen, we stumbled across Paul Hamann's 1987 documentary Fourteen Days in May, which charted the process on the lead up to the execution of Edward Earl Johnson. Johnson was tried and convicted for the murder of a policeman and the sexual assault of a 69-year-old woman. He spent eight years on death row, a slim season compared to the decades most people endure before execution in the present day, where he maintained his innocence. The documentary argues against the death penalty and maintains that capital punishment is disproportionately applied to African-Americans convicted of crimes against whites. Represented by British attorney Clive Stafford Smith, Fourteen Days in May shows the personal and legal battle to prevent his execution with the eerie backdrop of Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP), also known as Parchman Farm, in Mississippi. Edward Earl Johnson is still, to this day, the youngest person to be executed in the state at just 26-years-old. He was executed in Mississippi's gas chamber on 20 May 1987. DISCLAIMER: THIS DOCUMENTARY IS UNDER GLOBAL EXCLUSIVE LICENSE FROM BBC. SHOULD YOU HAVE ANY QUERIES OR QUESTIONS, PLEASE CONTACT US AT: [email protected] - Please tap the "Thanks" button under this video or join our Patreon for bonus content and more: https://www.patreon.com/realwomenrealstories FOLLOW US ON LINKEDIN: https://bit.ly/3HNRmRz