CNN Presents . . .
Scheduled to Die

The Struggle Over One Man's
Death Sentence in Texas

Saturday: 8:00 p.m., Sunday: 7:00 p.m., 11:00 p.m.,
Monday: 2:00 a.m. (All times EDT.)


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Napoleon Beazley is on death row in Texas, which has executed
269 people since 1982, more than any other U.S. state in those
20 years. I n "Scheduled to Die," CNN Chief International
Correspondent Christiane Amanpour examines the death penalty
process in Texas by following the Beazley case as it makes its way
through the criminal justice system.

In Texas, juries, rather than the judge, decide whether convicted
killers should be executed. The jury that convicted Beazley when
he was 18 years old for a crime committed at 17 also decided he
should be executed. Beazley is now 26.

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Did anyone get a chance to see this show? I believe that it did it's best to present both sides, but the callousness (sp?), non-feeling, judgemental attitudes of the DOC employees!! This also includes the Chaplain which upset me the most. He actually said, with his pompous face showing his piety, that on the day of the execution he goes and meets the inmate and tries to get a feel of his mood and help him out the best I can. On the day of the execution? How long are these guys on death row before they finally are executed and he goes sees them on that day? What about the years before? What about their souls and hearts? Who the F*!#@ do these people think they are?

What has happened to this world, our society? Are we that lost? Are we that non-feeling anymore? Texas is so proud of themselves!!! I can't believe anyone would be proud of killing someone. And they say these guys on death row are the worst of the worst, animals, lower than life. I think DOC needs to turn and look in the mirror before they start casting stones.

Sorry for venting and being so angry.

Joy

i did not get to see it.. i sure wish i did i am going to order a copy of it. i really want to see what they had to say.. this case really touchs me for so many reasons.. i am so sad and just can not bear the fact that they are going to kill him. he was a kid.. i mean sure he did something serious wrong but bottom line we was a kid and could have been rehabilitated.

Anybody can be rehabilitated, kid or adult. But you know what else that got my dander up? Michelle Lyons. She actually had the nerve to say

"You know, I've seen a lot of uglier things than watching an execution in which it does appear that you're watching someone go to sleep."

Anyone who thinks watching someone die isn't ugly has a very real problem!!