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Festival to feature Death Penalty films

By "Persian Cowboy"

Screenings of two documentaries on the Texas death penalty April 8 will kick off the Rice University portion of the Prison Reform Film Festival 2011.The films, DEATH ROW (1979) and DON'T KILL MY FATHER (2010) will be followed by a discussion panel with Gloria Rubac of the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement; Clarence Brandley, who served a decade on the old death row  before being exonerated and released in 1990, and Dave Atwood of the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.The hard-to-find documentary DEATH ROW was filmed with surprisingly few restrictions in the late 1970s on the old death row in the Ellis Unit in Huntsville. DON'T KILL MY FATHER focuses on interviews with family members of death row prisoners like Hank Skinner, Jeff Wood and Robert Garza...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on March 22, 2011 (boomark / email).