NARRATOR The name Dr. Richard Kimble.

Dr. Richard Kimble.

Profession doctor of medicine.

The name Dr. Richard Kimble.

The name Dr. Richard Kimble.

Let's say that you were a murderer and you were convicted of murder, and you're sent to death row.

Condemned man's dinner. Chicken, peas, watermelon.

The only country in the world.

Nobody's expecting me anyplace. ( sniffles )

My client Will and 80 percent of the people on death row had five chapters in their lives that came before the four chapters of the death penalty story.

Destination death row, state prison.

He'd say she had it even if she hasn't.

Death penalty in America is defined by error.

So, here was this 14 year old kid on death row.

First of all, we have all the statistical analyses from the Innocence Project work, where we know that we have, what, 250, 280 documented cases now where people have been wrongfully convicted and subsequently exonerated, some from death row, on the basis of later DNA analysis, and you know that over three quarters of all of those cases of exoneration involved only eyewitness identification testimony during the trial that convicted them.

Think about that. Look, why go on with this, huh?

I received my next assignment, and that was to go to the prisons to harvest organs from executed prisoners.

I was really worried.

According to today's morning paper, the condemned criminal committed suicide.

Now I worked with dying people for over 40 years.

What's happened is that lawyers who represent death row inmates have shifted their focus to earlier and earlier chapters of the death penalty story.

( mellow theme playing )

(Laughter)

Falsely convicted for the murder of his wife.

A prisoner at Plötzensee... just before dashing his head against the wall... said, Now!

But that fourth chapter always ends with an execution.

The problem is that there were way more guys on death row than there were lawyers who had both the interest and the expertise to work on these cases.

Capital offence!

It's the same wherever you try and escape everywhere is a death row, and everyone's a victim.

And the reason for that is that 80 percent of the people on death row are people who came from the same sort of dysfunctional family that Will did.

The prisoner died under torture.

We have to say, all right.

An innocent victim of blind justice, falsely convicted for the murder of his wife.

The prisoner dug a hole under the prison wall.

The prisoner was behind bars for two months.

I spend most of my time in jails, in prisons, on death row.

The convict was pardoned after serving his sentence.

So what all of these death row inmates had to do was rely on volunteer lawyers to handle their legal proceedings.

Any volunteers from your village?

And when he got tired of reading them, he started to teach the men in death row how to read, with these comic books.

The judge pardoned the prisoner a year of his sentence.

What's he running from?

Are you his executioner?

Did you see the prisoners hanged yesterday?

He got the chair.