for a reason though. It really did make you wonder whether Edward Earl Johnson was guilty or not?After Edward had left to go into the gas chamber, the camera showed the building with all the lights on. The superintendent came out and saidEdward died at 12.06 this morning. The interview was then showed with the superintendent answering questions about Edwardss death. You could see here that even though the superintendent thought Edward was guilty, he was very upset and had trouble getting his words out. After the superintendent had spoken, Edwardss lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, came out and said to all the cameras and journalists:Its a sick world out there and everyone is calm and collected but I am telling you something. I am not calm and I am not collected.The second documentary showed Clive Stafford Smith going back to Edwards home town to search for the truth. He believed that if he had tried to prove Edwards innocence by attempting to find out who committed the crime rather than just saying hes not innocent and trying to get him off the hook, he might of saved Edward from being executed.All through the second documentary there were flashbacks from the first documentary-fourteen days in May. This was just reminding viewers of the way he was treated and what he went through those eight years he was on death row. Clive rang Sally Franklin, the woman who someone (!) attempted to rape. Sally refused to speak to Clive, when she found out who he was, but she obviously did not want to bring up the subject, which was understandable. No white people commented on the Edward Earl Johnson case except one white juror. She said that the reason she voted for him to be executed was because he kept smiling! Clive interviewed a black juror who seemed to be quite senile. He said that even to this day he has believed that Edward was innocent but if he had voted for him to not to be executed, he might have had a visit from the klu klux klan. All the othe...
