The Death Bringer: In The Executioner's Shadow | Free Documentary

This is a very thoughtful and thought-provoking documentary. It’s not asking us to choose one way or the other. It tells the story of people who are affected. In the Executioner's Shadow casts a penetrating look at the consequences of the death penalty through three powerful stories - a former state executioner who comes within days of executing an innocent person; a Boston Marathon bombing victim who struggles to decide what justice really means; and the parents of a murder victim who choose to fight for the life of their daughter's killer. As the battle over capital punishment continues, this provocative film challenges viewers to question their deepest beliefs about the meaning of justice. It’s really good.

The death penalty should NEVER be abolished.

The Boston Marathon bomber was seen on security camera video purposely placing his bomb behind the 8-year-old boy who was murdered. You have to be one twisted and depraved person to purposely place a bomb behind a child! In my opinion, that's a case that completely justifies the death penalty.

The death penalty should never be ended

The rape and murder victim's mom has such a beautiful heart, you know she touches me when she tells about her telephonic conversations with the perpetrator's mom, much love from South Africa

The only thing to complain about is the amount of time between the death sentence & death.

All the cops did was KNOCK on the DOOR??? Disgraceful.

This is a very important issue well worth watching. Thanks for uploading it.

The real crime is Philly police taking 20 minutes to respond to someone being attacked

I am an ex con completely reformed criminal recovered heroin addict on 9 yr sobriety. I never did horrible things. But I witnessed how corrupt our justice system is

The blurred footage throughout is fantastic.....

I don't understand why they string murder victims families for 25 years like that. They should be asked at trial, and they should be contacted the year the execution is granted and asked if they still feel the same.

I'll try again and say, This is a very important video well worth watching.......

why should someone wrongly imprisoned be "pardoned"? you dont pardon an innocent person.

Why censor some parts of the video?

What drives a person to kill another person in the first place? What is in their heads? Ive never even had a inkling of going that far

A 19 year old mother of three. Good grief.

Thank you for sharing

40:55 So shocking... the woman who had her legs blown off thinks justice should be carried out, while the ones who didn't get their legs blown off are wondering if they should post to facebook about how hard they've had it worrying over the bomber's feelings and if they should do a tiktok dance with their non-blown-off legs to post about it.

Extraordinary documentary!