Inside America's Capital Punishment Crisis (2014)

Dangling on Death Row (2014): One in ten death row inmates are innocent. In Arizona and Texas, the execution capital of America, we hear from two inmates who have spent years awaiting the lethal injection for crimes they deny committing. For similar stories, see: Is The United State's Capital Punishment System Equal?    • Is The United State's Capital Punishment S...   Are Death Row Prisoners in the US Being Literally Tortured to Death?    • Are Death Row Prisoners in the US Being Li...   Singing For Their Lives On Uganda's Death Row    • Singing For Their Lives On Uganda's Death Row   Subscribe to journeyman for daily uploads: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c... For downloads and more information visit: http://www.journeyman.tv/film/6213/da... Like us on Facebook:   / journeymanpictures   Follow us on Twitter:   / journeymanvod     / journeymannews   Follow us on Instagram:   / journeymanpictures   "There are plenty of people here who think if you're guilty of murder you should be taken out back and hung from the nearest tree", says Sara Kinney from the Houston Prosecutor's Office. Yet those sentenced to death cost the taxpayer 2 million dollars each, a far higher sum than life imprisonment. "You can hear people crying in the night here. It's difficult to watch people die over and over", says inmate Hank Skinner. For 19 years he has been held in isolation. Three years ago he was just 10 minutes away from execution when the Supreme Court said there was insufficient DNA evidence and delayed his sentence. "We have a system where you're supposed to be presumed innocent. When somebody gets charged here, they're presumed guilty", says lawyer Mike Kimerer. SRF – Ref. 6213 Journeyman Pictures is your independent source for the world's most powerful films, exploring the burning issues of today. We represent stories from the world's top producers, with brand new content coming in all the time. On our channel you'll find outstanding and controversial journalism covering any global subject you can imagine wanting to know about.