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Fourteen days in May / directed and produced by Paul Hamann.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Johnson, Edward Earl.
- Capital punishment--United States.
- Capital punishment.
- Death row--Mississippi.
- Death row.
- Death row inmates--Mississippi.
- Death row inmates.
- African American prisoners--Mississippi.
- African American prisoners.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (87 minutes)
- Other Title:
- 14 days in May
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : BBC Worldwide, 1987.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- In 1987, Edward Earl Johnson - a Mississippi black man convicted of the murder of a white town marshal - was sent to the gas chamber after eight years of protesting his innocence on Death Row. This moving and award-winning film follows the final 14 days of his life. Found guilty on the sole evidence of signing a confession he had not written, Johnson had no previous convictions and consistently denied the charge. By May 1987, he was no nearer to clearing his name and the date of his execution had finally been set: May 20. Fourteen Days in May follows Johnson as he sees and touches his family for the last time.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed January 28, 2019).
- Nominated 1988 BAFTA Awards, Flaherty Documentary Award (TV), Paul Hamann
- OCLC:
- 1089753616
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