

Fourteen Days in May
A camera crew follows Edward Earl Johnson, a man falsely convicted of rape and murder, during his last 14 days on death row. Everyone involved is interviewed, Johnson himself, his family, the warden, prison guards and other inmates. We also witness the futile attempts by his attorney to save his life.
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- English
- death penalty
- mississippi river
- falsely accused
- gas chamber
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- Premiere11 Nov 1987
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Fourteen Days in May was released on 11 November 1987.
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CinemaSerf
3/13/2026
If there was ever to be a documentary to convince us of the profound flaws of a legal system that implements the death penalty, then this might be it. James Earl Johnson has been on death row for eight years following his conviction for the murder of a local deputy and the attempted rape of a sixty year old woman. Both were white, but the extent to which that might have mattered when the charges are killing a cop and…
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