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Life and Death Row: Season 4

The Mass Execution 2018

  • 2018-02-18T21:00:00Z on BBC Three
  • 1h
  • 4h (4 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
The story of capital punishment through the eyes of young people whose lives have been shaped by it.

4 episodes

Season Premiere

2018-02-18T21:00:00Z

4x01 Episode 1

Season Premiere

4x01 Episode 1

  • 2018-02-18T21:00:00Z1h

In this episode we meet death row inmate Stacey Johnson, who is scheduled to be executed for a crime that he claims he didn't commit. With just weeks to go, his wife Judy and stepdaughter Tasha are doing all they can to stop the execution from going ahead. We also meet Susan, whose mother was murdered in a home invasion by inmate Don Davis in 1990. Susan has been waiting for Davis's execution for decades and wants justice to finally be carried out so she and her family can find peace.

2018-02-25T21:00:00Z

4x02 Episode 2

4x02 Episode 2

  • 2018-02-25T21:00:00Z1h

In this episode, inmate Stacey Johnson and his family are attempting to get his execution stayed on the basis that DNA testing could prove his innocence. However, the daughter of Johnson's victim, who witnessed the murder, is fighting for the execution to go ahead so she can finally put her mother's death behind her.

Season Finale

2018-04-04T20:00:00Z

4x03 Episode 3

Season Finale

4x03 Episode 3

  • 2018-04-04T20:00:00Z1h

In this episode we meet Lynn Scott, the sister of death row inmate Jack Jones - the next prisoner in line to die. Jones has severe medical problems including diabetes, which led to him having a leg amputated in prison. We also meet inmate Marcel Williams who is on death row for the rape and murder of 22-year-old Stacy Rae Errickson. With only weeks to go before Williams's execution, his attorney Jason Kearney is fighting to save his client's life, arguing that Williams's original lawyers made serious mistakes during his trial.

2018-02-18T21:00:00Z

4x04 The Mass Execution (4)

4x04 The Mass Execution (4)

  • 2018-02-18T21:00:00Z1h

The family of murdered teenager John Melbourne Jr. are fighting for the execution of death row inmate Jason McGehee to go ahead. McGehee’s lawyers argue that his sentence is unjust, as he is only one out of a group of teenagers responsible for the murder. In fact, the person who actually took John’s life is eligible for parole in 2025.

We also meet Kayla Greenwood, whose father, Michael, was murdered by death row inmate Kenneth Williams in a road traffic collision after he escaped from prison. In an extraordinary act of forgiveness, Kayla, is desperate to reconnect the killer with the daughter, Jasmine, he hasn’t seen for 17 years.

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