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Final Judgment

Elizabeth (Liz) Garbus
Jonathan Stack
1996 United States 60 minutes English

After almost fifteen years on death row in Louisiana State Prison and thirteen reprieves Antonio James, sentenced for a murder and still claiming his innocence, has launched this final appeal against the deadly injection. The film follows this critical period up to 1st March 1996, and those around him-his close family, his lawyers, his spiritual advisors, the warden who is to administer the deadly injection and the prisoner Wilbert Rideau, a writer-journalist who had this death sentence commuted and is now trying to sensitise public opinion to the difficult problem of capital punishment.

Production :
Discovery Channel; Gabriel films
Distribution :
Gabriel films
Editing :
Alison Ellwood
Sound :
Ger E. Cannon
Photography :
Bob Perrin; Mike Spiller

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