Fourteen Days in May (1988)

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Filmed during the last 14 days of Edward Earl Johnson‘s stay on Mississippi’s death row, “Fourteen Days in May”  takes the viewer into the tragically desperate world of a man condemned to die while steadfastly confessing his innocence …

Fourteen Days in May is a documentary directed by Paul Hamann and originally shown on television by the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1987. The program 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.  – Wikipedia

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