Court TV and ABC News Nightline Produce Second Installment of Joint Crime and Justice Programming.Entertainment Editors NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Oct. 3, 2000 Two-Part "Death Penalty: Who Lives, Who Dies?" Hosted by Ted Koppel Edward James "Ted" Koppel (born February 8, 1940) is an American journalist, best known as the former anchorman for the American Broadcasting Company's Nightline. , Premieres On Court TV at 10:00 PM October 30th and October 31st Court TV has commissioned two additional original hours of programming from ABC News
ABC News is a division of American television and radio network ABC, owned by The Walt Disney Company. Its current president is David Westin. Nightline focusing on crime and punishment Crime and Punishment (Russian: Преступление и наказание) is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, that was first published in the issues. On October 30 and 31st at 10:00 PM Crime Stories will air "Death Penalty: Who Lives, Who Dies?" two one-hour broadcasts drawn from Nightline's four-part series, "Crime and Punishment: A Matter of Life and Death
"Matter of Life and Death" was the second episode of the first series of . ." Hosted by ABC News Nightline's Ted Koppel, the two hours will address the different ways in which the Virginia, Illinois Virginia is a city in Cass County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,728 at the 2000 census[1]. It is the county seat of Cass County.GR6 Geography Virginia is located at (39. , Texas and Colorado legislature view the death penalty. The specials include new interviews and never-before-seen footage, including original reporting on how Colorado treats its indigent indigent 1) n. a person so poor and needy that he/she cannot provide the necessities of life (food, clothing, decent shelter) for himself/herself. 2) n. one without sufficient income to afford a lawyer for defense in a criminal case. death row inmates and on the trial and case of Earl Washington in Virginia. One special takes an in-depth look at Virginia's rape-murder conviction of Earl Washington. Earl Washington, a 40-year-old with an IQ of 69, has spent the last seventeen years in prison - ten of them on death row. The special examines the prosecution - comprised of a questionable confession, the defense - which missed exculpatory exculpatory adj. applied to evidence which may justify or excuse an accused defendant's actions, and which will tend to show the defendant is not guilty or has no criminal intent. blood evidence, and an appeals process that upheld the conviction at every stage. Earl Washington's fate now rests in the hands of Virginia's Governor James Gilmore, who now has new DNA test results that may establish Washington's innocence. The second hour will focus on Texas and Colorado, two states with vastly different systems of administering capital cases. In Texas, the state with the highest execution rate in the country, the special examines widespread charges of incompetent court-appointed attorneys and an appeals process that has been accused of being unfair to defendants. In Colorado we look at a well-funded aggressive public defender public defender, governmental official who represents indigent persons accused of crime. U.S. Supreme Court decisions expanding the right to counsel to pretrial proceedings and holding that a person cannot be sentenced to even one day in jail unless a lawyer was office where the prosecution claims it is at a disadvantage. Court TV's nightly legal news show, Pros & Cons, hosted by former defense attorney Nancy Grace, and Crier CRIER. An inferior officer of a court, whose duty it is to open and adjourn the court, when ordered by the judges; to make proclamations and obey the directions of the court in anything which concerns the administration of justice. Today, will address this controversial topic as well. Courttv.com will offer viewer chats with noted experts on the topic. Bonnie Dry executive produced for Court TV. Dan Green, Mary-Claude Foster and Gill Parker produced for ABC News Nightline. "Death Penalty: Who Lives, Who Dies?" is the second installment from ABC News Nightline and Court TV to focus on issues of crime and punishment. The first two-part series, "Women in Prison," was broadcast in May, 2000. As the first and only cable network dedicated to crime and justice seven days a week, Court TV (www.courttv.com) provides a unique window into the American legal system. The network brings viewers distinctive programming which both informs and entertains; airing its trademark trial coverage by day and an expanded evening schedule focused on the crime and justice genre. Court TV was launched in 1991 and has aired more than 700 trials to date. Court TV reaches over 47 million households and is expected to hit 50 million subscribers by year-end. |
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