Thanx a lot Clive Stafford Smith for your GREAT WORK ! I firstly saw in 1987 on German TV and it made me directly join Amnesty International and fight the death penalty since then. All the Best to your important work and God bless!
clive Stafford is a true saint 14 days in may was a painful documentary to watch yet compelling watching. can never work out even leaving aside the death penalty why prosecutors seem to want to punish the wrong person.Doesnt say much for the victim of the crime knowing justice is still not done.
Does anyone know where I could view "The Journey"? I have just watched "14 Days in May" and agree it was compelling viewing. I'd really like to see the follow up to it, but can't seem to find it anywhere. Anyone know?
Yeah i was looking aswell, and no luck, it's not on imdb under his documentaries, i suppose is along time ago. maybe email him at reprieve? and ask. can't find other docs he made aswell, maybe too controversial. There is twitter feed from 2013. where someone asked him and he said he could get it, also if you search under clive stafford you get more stuff youtube
I was able to find an article about the film. said the movie came out in September 1988. genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/50a5e23eafb4418bba37393969711cd3 Synopsis in case the link eventually goes down: Last week, BBC1 showed again a powerful documentary made last year - Fourteen Days in May. It depicted the final two weeks in the life of Edward Johnson, a young black man on death row in Mississippi. Johnson was convicted of killing a white town marshal. He had always strongly proclaimed his innocence. This April, his lawyer Clive Stafford Smith returned to Mississippi in a bid to discover the truth and clear his client's name. Though it proved a difficult task, he eventually found many people who were prepared to name, on film, the man they claim to be the true killer. Stafford Smith then learned where the alleged murderer lived. His confrontation with this man provides a remarkable climax to his extraordinary journey. ... I know. It makes you want to see it even more lol >_
I contacted Reprieve and they said they had it for sale many years ago I got an email but nothing materialised. Im not sure if Paul owns the copyright, its a total mystery, we all want to see the follow up to what is quite possibly the most powerful capital punishment documentary ever made
As disturbing as it was the black rabbit scene I think was pivotal in establishing exactly what awaited Edward Johnson.I wouldn’t say the film crew had the good fortune of showing up in Mississippi to document what is perhaps the cruelest method of execution ever devised in the history of the US being performed by a prison staff enjoying their jobs far too much but it drove the point home in a way that neither lethal injection or even the electric chair could have accomplished. Strictly from a technical perspective the black rabbit scene is also the only known footage of a live test of a gas chamber. And it wasn't just Mississippi that did live animal tests to 'prove' the lethality of the chamber, it was standard practice in every state using the gas chamber as well as being performed at the factory prior to shipping. The thing with the gas chamber unlike the electric chair, lethal injection or practically any other method of execution where you can only demonstrate up to a certain point, the deluge of cyanide gas rising from beneath the chair where Edward Johnson would be sitting with the rabbits going into violent hypoxic convulsions best demonstrated the complete experience. Also don't forget that rabbits are many times smaller than humans meaning the concentration of the gas would appear to be much higher than it would be if it were a person. The fact they didn't immediately just fall over dead completely undermines the whole premise of these 1950s model gas chambers that more cyanide would produce a more rapid lapse into unconscious and death. Compared to the older type chambers like at San Quentin which produced gas at a far slower rate, the average time to death remained at 9 minutes, 30 seconds.
Thanx a lot Clive Stafford Smith for your GREAT WORK ! I firstly saw in 1987 on German TV and it made me directly join Amnesty International and fight the death penalty since then. All the Best to your important work and God bless!
Me too!
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Sadly enough , the death penalty still is in many states at work .
clive Stafford is a true saint 14 days in may was a painful documentary to watch yet compelling watching.
can never work out even leaving aside the death penalty why prosecutors seem to want to punish the wrong person.Doesnt say much for the victim of the crime knowing justice is still not done.
There’s never an excuse for taking a humans life.
Does anyone know where I could view "The Journey"? I have just watched "14 Days in May" and agree it was compelling viewing. I'd really like to see the follow up to it, but can't seem to find it anywhere. Anyone know?
Yeah i was looking aswell, and no luck, it's not on imdb under his documentaries, i suppose is along time ago. maybe email him at reprieve? and ask. can't find other docs he made aswell, maybe too controversial. There is twitter feed from 2013. where someone asked him and he said he could get it, also if you search under clive stafford you get more stuff youtube
It's nowhere to be found! Shame.
I was able to find an article about the film. said the movie came out in September 1988. genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/50a5e23eafb4418bba37393969711cd3
Synopsis in case the link eventually goes down: Last week, BBC1 showed again a powerful documentary made last year - Fourteen Days in May. It depicted the final two weeks in the life of Edward Johnson, a young black man on death row in Mississippi. Johnson was convicted of killing a white town marshal. He had always strongly proclaimed his innocence.
This April, his lawyer Clive Stafford Smith returned to Mississippi in a bid to discover the truth and clear his client's name. Though it proved a difficult task, he eventually found many people who were prepared to name, on film, the man they claim to be the true killer.
Stafford Smith then learned where the alleged murderer lived. His confrontation with this man provides a remarkable climax to his extraordinary journey.
... I know. It makes you want to see it even more lol >_
I contacted Reprieve and they said they had it for sale many years ago I got an email but nothing materialised. Im not sure if Paul owns the copyright, its a total mystery, we all want to see the follow up to what is quite possibly the most powerful capital punishment documentary ever made
He is Right clive stafford smith Every word he says
Painful to watch and rememember.
My heart is breaking.
Rip Edward Im so sorry😢😢😢 !❤
As disturbing as it was the black rabbit scene I think was pivotal in establishing exactly what awaited Edward Johnson.I wouldn’t say the film crew had the good fortune of showing up in Mississippi to document what is perhaps the cruelest method of execution ever devised in the history of the US being performed by a prison staff enjoying their jobs far too much but it drove the point home in a way that neither lethal injection or even the electric chair could have accomplished. Strictly from a technical perspective the black rabbit scene is also the only known footage of a live test of a gas chamber. And it wasn't just Mississippi that did live animal tests to 'prove' the lethality of the chamber, it was standard practice in every state using the gas chamber as well as being performed at the factory prior to shipping. The thing with the gas chamber unlike the electric chair, lethal injection or practically any other method of execution where you can only demonstrate up to a certain point, the deluge of cyanide gas rising from beneath the chair where Edward Johnson would be sitting with the rabbits going into violent hypoxic convulsions best demonstrated the complete experience. Also don't forget that rabbits are many times smaller than humans meaning the concentration of the gas would appear to be much higher than it would be if it were a person. The fact they didn't immediately just fall over dead completely undermines the whole premise of these 1950s model gas chambers that more cyanide would produce a more rapid lapse into unconscious and death. Compared to the older type chambers like at San Quentin which produced gas at a far slower rate, the average time to death remained at 9 minutes, 30 seconds.
What about that poor rabbit😢😢😢 exaccebated by an innocent man's death!
Nathan locket still got a more merciful then his victim.