This new documentary provides a careful examination of the death penalty process in Texas and examines the following questions:

• Do defendants in capital cases receive effective counsel?
• What role has police and prosecutorial misconduct played in capital murder cases?
• Does it make sense to execute people with mental disabilities or juvenile offenders?

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Learn more about:

• Innocent people on Texas death row.
• Flawed appeals and clemency procedures.
• Political influences on decisions to seek the death penalty.
• Lack of juries’ choice to seek life without parole instead of a death sentence.

Balancing the Scales includes commentary and interviews with:

• Kerry Cook and Clarence Brandley - Exonerated death row prisoners.
• Jeanette Popp, mother of a murder victim.
• A professor of criminal justice.
• A former judge on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
• A former district attorney
• Rep. Harold Dutton - A Texas state representative
• And parents of prisoners executed by the state of Texas

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