TY  - ADVS
ED  - Films Media Group.
TI  - Black Death in Dixie: Racism and the Death Penalty in the United States
PY  - 2007///
N1  - fma39112
N2  - Challenging viewers to look beyond mainstream media treatment of the death penalty, this program portrays capital punishment as a blunt instrument that disproportionately targets racial minorities and the poor. The film highlights several difficult issues, concepts, and social conditions-including statistics on the racial makeup of America's death row population; questionable convictions resulting from mistaken identification; the emotional and psychological toll on those wrongfully convicted; and the lingering effects of the Jim Crow era-or what many have called America's 20th-century apartheid system-in which lynching functioned as de facto capital punishment. (26 minutes)
UR  - http://stats.lib.pdx.edu/proxy.php?url=http://digital.films.com/play/KH825N
ER  -