Thou Shalt Not Kill

File — Tape: WMAR-MISC-1144-004

Identifier: WMAR-MISC-1144-004

Staff Only

Shot List

1. Introduction - Richard Riser 0:21 2. California capital punishment - gas chamber 1:41 3. Sensationalist news coverage - Steven Nash and Caryl Chessman 4:18 4. Lawrence Payne, father of child murdered by death row inmate Billy Rupp 9:17 5. Impact of crime scene images, with Deputy District Attorney J. Miller Leavy 13:04 6. Austin MacCormick, Professor of Criminology 17:04 7. Concept of execution as deterrence 18:50 8. Pete Pitchess, Los Angeles Sheriff 20:57 9. Judge Thomas Ambrose 22:08 10. Decline in death penalty usage 23:58 11. Judge Evelle Younger 25:06 12. Unequal application of death penalty 27:50 13. Opinions of people on street 32:04 14. Interviews with inmates 33:56 15. Reverend Byron Eshelman 42:18 16. Warden Sam Dixon 45:09 17. Lieutenant Russel Becker on gas chamber execution procedures 46:29 18. Controversy around broadcasting executions 52:23 19. State Senator Robert McCarthy 53:37 20. Editorial position on death penalty 55:22 21. Credits 1:00:08

Dates

1948-1993

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research. Material from the collection may be viewed in the Special Collections Research Room. Some items may have access limitations due to physical format. Some footage from the the collection has been digitized and made available online for streaming through the Internet Archive and is available through this finding aid.