Life and Death Row

For two of the youngest men on death row in Texas, execution day has arrived. Victim Nikki Daniels reflects on her kidnapping ordeal by murderer Richard Cobb and battles with her conflicting desires to forgive him, while the mother of death row inmate Anthony Haynes fights to use the final 72 hours to halt her son's execution for the murder of a police officer.

Follows the trial of 26 year-old Guy Heinze Jr, with remarkable access to the jury members charged with reaching a verdict on allegations that Heinze beat his father, and seven members of his family, to death.

Follows young students from the Death Penalty Clinic at the University of Houston as they fight last ditch appeals - known as `crisis cases' - for two of the youngest killers facing execution in the US. Prison guard murderer Robert Pruett and drive-by killer Robert Garza have just weeks to live.

On March 11 2009, Daniel Lopez was pulled over for driving erratically. The dramatic car chase that ensued killed a police officer and 27-year-old Daniel was given the death penalty. Unusually for a death row prisoner, he is resisting all appeals to block his execution - which is due in five weeks time.

In April 2013, 18-year-old Shawn Ford Jr was charged with killing his girlfriend's parents with a sledgehammer. Now, he is on trial for his life and a jury of twelve ordinary people must decide whether he should live or die.

In January 2014, in small American town, 18-year-old boy Justin Back is brutally murdered in his own home. Two friends, 19-year-old Austin Myers and 19-year-old Tim Mosley, are arrested and charged with his murder. Both give very different stories. Which one is telling the truth? What will each one do to save themselves from the ultimate punishment: the death penalty? With access to the filmed confessions of both boys, this film shines a disturbing light on the American criminal justice system.