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  title info:
    title: Race to execution
  name:
    name part: Lyon, Rachel.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Documentary.
  genre: Streaming videos.
  genre: documentary film.
  genre: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
  genre: Documentary films.
  genre: Documentaires.
  genre: Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (54 min.)
  abstract: Race to Execution" is a gripping documentary that offers a compelling investigation of America's death penalty, probing how race discrimination infects our capital punishment system. The film neither advocates nor repudiates the death penalty; instead, it enlarges the conversation regarding capital punishment, focusing attention on race-of-jury as well as race-of-victim. Research reveals that our justice system is far worse than arbitrary and capricious; it has deteriorated significantly in the last twenty years. Highlighted is a well-documented indicator of this trend - the higher value placed on the lives of white victims. Once a victim's body is discovered, the race of the victim and the accused deeply influence the legal process: from how a crime scene is investigated, to the deployment of police resources, to the interrogation and arrest of major suspects, to how media portrays the crime, and, ultimately, jury selection and sentencing. The film traces the fates of two death row inmates: Robert Tarver in Russell County, Alabama, and Madison Hobley in Chicago. Their compelling personal stories are enlarged and enriched by attorneys who fought for these men's lives, and by prosecutors, criminal justice scholars, and experts in the fields of law and the media. These varied voices contribute to a thoughtful examination of the factors that influence who lives and who dies at the hands of the state. While recent death penalty documentaries have focused on innocence and the wrongfully accused, "Race to Execution" tackles a more difficult, more complex issue: the prevalence and influence of racial bias in capital punishment cases.
  target audience: For High School; College; Adult audiences.
  target audience: general
  note: by Lioness Media Arts Production ; directed and produced by Rachel V. Lyon.
  note: English.
  subject:
    topic: Capital punishment
  subject:
    topic: Death row inmates
  subject:
    topic: Discrimination in capital punishment
  subject:
    topic: Racism
  subject:
    topic: Peine de mort
  subject:
    topic: Condamnés à mort
  subject:
    topic: Discrimination dans l'application de la peine de mort
  subject:
    topic: Racisme
  subject:
    topic: Capital punishment
  subject:
    topic: Death row inmates
  subject:
    topic: Discrimination in capital punishment
  subject:
    topic: Racism
  classification: HV7419
  classification: 364.66
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Filmakers Library online
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: ALSTP
    record creation date: 080405
    record change date: 20241201230237.3
    record identifier: in00005546397
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng