ANIMATIONS / VIDEOS :

• Californians to Vote on Ending Death Penalty - Text + Audio + Video - 18 September 2016
  "Californians will vote on two measures to decide whether to end the death penalty, or reform the legal process leading up to it.
  Proposition 62 would abolish the death penalty. Proposition 66 would try to speed up executions by reforming parts of the appeals process.
  Voting takes place November 8."
  (learningenglish.voanews.com)

• 'Taking one minute at a time' - freed death row inmate - 7:57 - 7 April 2015
  "Anthony Ray Hinton was released from prison in Alabama on Friday after 30 years on death row for a crime he did not commit.
  Prosecutors dropped the case against him when new ballistics tests contradicted the only evidence
  that linked him to the murders of two restaurant managers in 1985.
  He believes racism played a part in his conviction."
  (BBC)

• The five ways the US executes - in 45 seconds - VIDEO - 25 March 2015
  "As Utah reauthorises the use of firing squads to carry out executions, BBC news looks at the other ways different US states can execute inmates."
  (BBC)

• Video: Death penalty stories (animated slideshow)
  (amnesty.org)
  

• BBC HARDtalk - Allen Ault - Former Commissioner of Corrections, Georgia, USA (14-2-14)
  "HARDtalk gets a rare insight from Allen Ault, who spent years running the corrections system in the southern US state of Georgia.
  He organised the killing of criminals until he could stand it no more. Now he is an opponent of the death penalty. Why?"
  (YouTube)

• The History of Capital Punishment in the United States (YouTube)

• Execution - une animation de Mark Fiore (forum.alternet.org) - UPDATED
  
  

SONGS

• Johnny Cash - 25 minutes to go - "Animated video from Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison: The Making of a Masterpiece"
  (YouTube)
  
  + Worksheets (docx) created by Mathieu Vandorpe (Ac. Bordeaux):

  - Doc 1 A 25 minutes to go - lyrics to complete - Doc 1 A 25 minutes to go - lyrics completed - Doc 1 B 25 minutes to go - written CPH - Doc 1 B 25 minutes to go - written CPH corrected

   
  
  

• Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
  "Mama, just killed a man, Put a gun against his head
  Pulled my trigger, now he's dead...
  Too late, my time has come
  Sends shivers down my spine, body's aching all the time
  Goodbye, ev'rybody, I've got to go...
  Mama, ooh, I don't want to die"
  (lyrics007.com)
  + The VIDEO (YouTube)
  
  

• Folk Songs About Capital Punishment (nwfolk.com)

• Songs from "The Capeman" by Paul Simon (Wikipedia)
  "is an album of songs from his Broadway musical The Capeman.
  The Capeman tells the true story of Paul "The Capeman" Agron, who killed two young men in 1959 and was sentenced to death."
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Gallows Pole - Led Zeppelin, Atlantic 1970 From the album "Led Zeppelin III".
  (azlyrics.com)

• Dead Man Walkin' - Bruce Springsteen, Columbia 1995 (xs4all.nl)

• Promises - Lyle Lovett, Columbia 1995 (sing365.com)

• The Fall of Troy - Tom Waits, Columbia 1995 (tom-waits.spb.ru)

• Woman on the Tier (I'll see you through) - Suzanne Vega, Warner Bros 1995
  From the album "Nine Objects Of Desire".

• Hurricane - Bob Dylan (bobdylan.com)

• Green Green Grass of Home - Tom Jones (azlyrics.com)

LITERATURE

'A Lesson Before Dying' by Ernest Gaines

The Green Mile :

• The Green Mile "is a 1996 serial novel written by Stephen King. It tells the story of death row supervisor Paul Edgecombe's encounter with John Coffey, an unusual inmate who displays inexplicable healing and empathetic abilities. The serial novel was originally released in six volumes before being republished as a single volume work. The book is an example of magical realism."
  (Wikipedia)
  
  
  • 1 Publication history
  • 2 Plot
  • 3 Characters
  • 4 Reception
  • 5 Film adaptation
  • 6 References

In Cold Blood :

• In Cold Blood "is a non-fiction novel[1] by American author Truman Capote, first published in 1966; it details the 1959 murders of four members of the Herbert Clutter family in the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas."
  (Wikipedia)
  
  
  • 1 Overview of the crime
  • 2 Capote's research
  • 3 Publication
  • 4 Reviews and impact
  • 5 Adaptations
    • 5.1 Film
    • 5.2 Television
    • 5.3 Graphic novelization
  • 6 See also
  • 7 References
  • 8 Further reading
  • 9 External links

Dead Man Walking :

• Dead Man Walking (1993) "is a work of non-fiction by Sister Helen Prejean, a Roman Catholic nun and one of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Medaille. An account based on her work as a spiritual adviser to two convicted murderers on Death Row, the book is set at the Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola) in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. It examines moral issues related to the death penalty.[1]"
  (Wikipedia)

  • 1 Background
  • 2 Name
  • 3 Adaptations
    • 3.1 Film
    • 3.2 Opera
    • 3.3 Stage version of the book/film
  • 4 References
  • 5 External links
    
    
• Dead Man Walking: A worksheet (.doc)
  
  
  

The Day of the Execution :

• The Day of the Execution by Henry Slesar (1957) - the text
  (lfvhenglish.weebly.com)
  
  
• The Day of the Execution (pdf)
  "This document is an excerpt from a short story eponymously entitled "The Day of the Execution". It was written by Henry Slesar in 1959. The text is illustrated by the picture of an electric chair, which helps us realise that one of the themes in this story is the death penalty..."
  Summary / Main themes / Concjlusion / Vocabulary / Teacher's Note
  (lfvhenglish.weebly.com)

• The Hitchcock Project: Henry Slesar Part Two--"Night of the Execution" [3.13]
  (barebonesez.blogspot.fr)