Fourteen Days in May is a documentary film directed by Paul Hamann and originally shown on television by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in 1987. The programme recounts the final days before the execution of Edward Earl Johnson, an American prisoner convicted of rape and murder and imprisoned in the Mississippi State Penitentiary. Johnson protested his innocence and claimed that his confession had been made under duress. He was executed in Mississippi's gas chamber on 20 May 1987.
Fourteen Days in May (1987)
Directed by Paul Hamann
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American, Edward Earl Johnson, Execution, Gas, Prisoner, Violation
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Subject: Documentary about capital punishment in the United
Alternate Titles
Fourteen Days in May
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