14 days in may

FOURTEEN DAYS IN MAY

The documentary “Fourteen Days in May?made by Panorama-BBC in 1987, is a bias discussion on the issue of capital punishment. The documentary follows death-row inmate Edward Earl Johnson on his last few days alive as he struggles to prove his innocence as be released, and using several subjective techniques attempts to bias its audience against capital punishment. African-American Johnson was convicted in 1979 for the murder of a white town martial, and the attempted rape of a 60 yr old woman. The documentary uses methods such as exposing only the innocent side of Johnson, showing emotive material, lighting/sound and timeframe to create an atmosphere to bias its audience.

Throughout the documentary, the audience is manipulated against capital punishment through painting Johnson’s character as that of a hard done-by innocent victim. In every scene Johnson appears in he speaks in a calm, controlled tone which when combined with the fact that he is on death r...