trials (murder)

Presents an account of the case of Leo Frank, a Jewish man who moved to Georgia in the early 1900s to run a pencil factory, discussing his trial for the 1913 murder of a young teenage worker, the controversy over his conviction, the governor's commutation of his death sentence, and his lynching by a mob in 1915.

Analyzes Abraham Lincoln's defense of William Armstrong, a young man accused of kidnapping and murdering a man named James Metzger in August of 1857.

A beloved family doctor and pillar of the community has been accused of murdering Viola Turner, the African-American nurse with whom he worked in the dark days of the 1960s. His son Penn, once a crusading prosecutor, is determined to save his father. But Tom (the doctor), stubbornly invokes doctor-patient privilege and refuses to even speak in his own defense.

"On October 7, 1988, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die in a shocking act of hate. Matthew Shepard's death became a national symbol of intolerance, but for the people of the town, the event was deeply personal. In the aftermath, Mois?s Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie and conducted more than 200 interviews with its people"--Provided by publisher.

In the small town of Edna, Texas, in 1951, field hand Pete Hern?andez killed a tenant farmer after exchanging words in a cantina. From this murder emerged a landmark civil rights case that would change the lives and legal standing of ten of millions of Americans. Tells the story of an underdog band of Mexican American lawyers who took their case all the way to the Supreme Court, where they challenged Jim Crow-style discrimination against Mexican Americans. Lawyers forged a daring legal strategy, arguing that Mexican Americans were "a class apart" from a legal system that recognized only blacks and whites.

Forensic sketch artist David Weiss returns to his hometown to cover a routine celebrity murder trial, where he becomes obsessed with the victims of a twenty-five-year-old murder.

A convicted rapist and murderer returns to Ford County, Mississippi, seeking revenge on the jurors who dared convict him.