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Procedure 769 : the witnesses to an execution

Documentary

Directed by: Jaap van Hoewijk

Overview

Covers the controversy surrounding the execution of Robert Alton Harris on 21 April 1992. Harris, convicted of murdering two teenage boys after a bank robbery in San Diego in 1978, was the first prisoner to be put to death in the gas chamber in California in twenty-five years. The film looks at the event through the eyes of eleven different witnesses to the execution

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