Deadline Outreach Journal: The Power of Relationships

Can capital punishment be justified in a criminal justice system so fraught with error that in Illinois, 13 of the 25 inmates slated for execution were discovered to be innocent?

That was exactly the question that former Illinois Governor George Ryan faced in the final days of his term in 2004 as he decided whether to let 167 people live or die. And it is the question that America will face on July 30 (today!) when Deadline, a riveting new documentary, has its national television premiere in a special two-hour edition of Dateline NBC at 8pm (Eastern Standard Time). It is unprecedented for a film like this to get such a large, diverse audience and it is important for viewers to tune in to show the network just how hungry the American public is for media that forces us to question and to think. There will be viewing parties across the country from Rikers Island to a Catholic church in South Carolina to the Delaware chapter of Forensic Nurses.

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