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Death Row Stories

Meet the men and women sentenced to die, the prosecutors pushing for their execution and those who fight for their freedom.
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  1. S1 E1 - Edward Lee Elmore

    March 8, 2014
    43min
    TV-PG
    After Edward Lee Elmore was sentenced to death in 1982 for murder, a legal intern discovered discrepancies pointing to his innocence.
  2. S1 E2 - Gloria Killian

    March 15, 2014
    43min
    TV-14
    Sometimes the act of one person can alter the entire course of someone else's life. For Joyce Ride, that act was befriending a prisoner named Gloria Killian.
  3. S1 E3 - Joe D'Ambrosio

    March 22, 2014
    43min
    TV-14
    A jury convicts Joe D'Ambrosio of murder in a trial that lasts just three days. Everyone ignores his pleas of innocence until a lawyer-turned-priest steps in.
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  4. S1 E4 - James Duckett

    March 29, 2014
    43min
    TV-14
    Convicted in the 1987 rape and murder of a young girl, former police officer James Duckett remains on death row while maintaining his innocence.
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  5. S1 E5 - John Thompson

    April 5, 2014
    43min
    TV-14
    A jury sentences John Thompson to death for the 1984 killing of a hotel executive. Weeks before his execution, newly uncovered evidence leads to his freedom.
  6. S1 E6 - Kris Maharaj

    July 12, 2014
    43min
    TV-PG
    Businessman Krishna Maharaj spends nearly a decade on death row for murder until an alternative explanation for the killings emerges.
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  7. S1 E7 - Timothy Hennis

    September 6, 2014
    43min
    TV-14
    A mountain of circumstantial evidence sends Sgt. Hennis to death row for the murders of an army wife and her two daughters. Then the case takes a unique turn.
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  8. S1 E8 - Nathan Dunlap

    September 6, 2014
    43min
    TV-14
    A judge sentences Nathan Dunlap to death after his conviction for what was, at the time, one of the worst mass murders in Colorado history.
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