When asked about her experience with death penalty cases, Amanda Bass answered, “I worked for a year at a small non-profit in Montgomery, Alabama doing capital post-conviction work… What we do, when we get a case in a federal Habeas proceeding, is to aggressively investigate, number one. Wang answered that Viola (Davis) and Julius (Tennon) wanted to be a voice for the voiceless and they wanted to allow the people on death row to share their voice to humanize their situation.Īmani Martin said that his approach to filming this story was being inspired from musical documentaries on Netflix because their narratives are told by audio tapes and images because a lot of those subjects have passed away, so the story is told in images and in Julius’ case, even though they were hopeful in the beginning that they would be able to film Juilus, they knew that they could tell his story even though ended up not being able to film him physically, they could tell his story in the same way those aforementioned documentaries were told. Vanessa said that there was a study in The National Institute of Justice that came out in 2014 said that stated that 4.1% of people on death row are actually innocent - that significantly a large number of people on death row today are innocent but that the system doesn’t always get it right and that there’s always another side of the story.Ĭourtney then asked Head of Television for Juvee Productions, Andrew Wang, what Juvee’s approach to this particular project and what moved them about this production. Jimmy Lawson said Julius is getting 75 to 100 letters a day which is giving him a hope and a different mindset and outlook since the show has aired.Ī hearing has been set for September 7th regarding testing of the red bandana.Ĭourtney began the panel by asking Vanessa and Aida what inspired them to create The Last Defense.
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