Trois Femmes Dans Le Couloir De La Mort | 1998

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This report portrays three women sentenced to death in the United States. It is built around their testimonies and those of their loved ones, and illustrated with images of prisons and photographs. - The story begins with a recording of Darlie ROUTIER’s call to the emergency police on June 5, 1996, when she discovers her two stabbed children. She was sentenced to death by this double murder. The circumstances of the drama and the indictment are evoked through the cross-interviews of: Darlie KEE, her mother; Darin ROUTIER, her husband; Darlie ROUTIER in the prison parlor; John MAC LEMORE, private detective who leads a counter-investigation to prove the innocence of Darlie Routier. These testimonies are illustrated by photographs and videos of the family. - In Gatesville prison, interview with Erica SHEPPARD, sentenced to death for killing a woman in order to steal her car. Her testimony is punctuated by an excerpt from a June 1993 television news about the crime and by interviews with: John and Helen SAGE, brother and sister of the victim, Madelyne Mc Neil, mother of Erica SHEPPARD; Pamela BAGETT, director of the prison. - Imprisoned for three years in Tennessee, Christa PIKE, 21, is the youngest sentenced to death in the United States. His testimony alternates with images of the place where the murder was committed, the execution room of the prison and interviews with: Randy YORK, investigator; Joe HELM, assistant to the prosecutor of Knoxville; Ricky BELL, director of the prison of River Sand. - In conclusion, successive interviews of: Madelyne Mc Neil, John SAGE, Erica SHEPPARD, Helen SAGE, Darlie ROUTIER and Pamela BAGETT. Young women condemned to death; the subject could have given rise to a voyeuristic and sensational light, made of tears, distress, with, at the end of the day, the diffusion of an execution. The team of Bernard Volker and Jean Michel Chappes chose, on the contrary, to draw up three portraits of sensitive women, sometimes worried, but always dignified. They thus remind, that behind every culprit, hides a person whose life has one day turned upside down. Darlie Routier, 28, was sentenced to death in Texas for the murder of her two children, Damon and Devon. As Darlie and her family roamed through the vast home and flipped through the photo albums of forever broken happiness, the horror of crima gave way to misunderstanding. Tonight, June 5, 1996, Darlie says she caught a man with a knife at home, and the bodies of his two wildly stabbed sons. At the end of a botched judicial procedure where the police officers who conducted the investigation were not even heard, the verdict is final: Darlie is sentenced to death. In Darlie’s case, the indignation stems from the fact that a procedure can go as far as the death penalty, without tangible evidence; but beyond this finding, "Reports" shows that regardless of the guilt of the accused, justice does not give these women time or chance to repent. At Gatesville prison, after the execution of Carla Faye Tucker in February '98, there are still seven women waiting on death row. Erica Sheppard is accused of stabbing a woman for the sole purpose of stealing her car. Erica unfolds the film of her life: "Bad choice, bad place, bad time, bad encounters... that’s how my life turned upside down". The certainty of a certain death, however, gave him the accents of poet of life: "If I shall be executed one day, I know where I will go, I will be eternal". "I’m not afraid to die," says Christa Pike, the youngest sentenced to death in the United States, just 18 years old when she murdered a classmate. The crime has made her the emblem of juvenile violence that must be dealt with harshly. The anti-crime campaign that has secured Tennessee’s re-election leaves him with little chance of life imprisonment. In the death room, the execution chamber of the River Sand prison, silence reigns. How not to shiver when we see the clinical cleanliness of this room where the dirty work is carried out. Let us shudder when we discover with what minutia the details of the execution are set: the electric chair whose functioning is checked just before use, the clock which cynically indicates to the victim that time cannot repair his fault, or the physician who is available to see that the work has been well done. How to stop thinking about these three women and their anguish. In a few days, it may be Christa Pike who will be sitting on this dark chair, alone facing her executioners. How to forget his words of distress: "I am terrified at the idea of being electrocuted".

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