Death Row Stories

I have to say that every human being can be portrayed sympathetically, even the most vile, brutal people who dismember children for fun, callously knife to death women, and commit the most heinous crimes, if you do no more than a quick drive-by of their actual crime.

You literally could put Stalin, Pol Pot, Hitler, or Mao on this show the way the presentations are done, and have people saying: "Oh they were not so bad."

Also the one case I watched were doubt was cast on the conviction, there was no mention that the death row inmate had a prior second degree murder (pled down from first) and a prior manslaughter pled down from first/second murder. The implication by leaving out that fact was this was some kind of good guy who may have been the victim of a miscarriage of justice -- when his hyper violent priors show he was an unmitigated and habitually lethally violent : "super predator."

Really people on death row are "repentant" -- and that is a surprise? What does it mean when a 40 year old kidnaps, brutally rapes and sodomizes and then and beats to death a 14 year old girl and is "repentant" as his penalty awaits?

I love Susan Sarandon as the narrator!!! I've literally seen every season every episode at least twice!

This show airs on HLN after Forensic Files, of which I'm an avid viewer. As soon as one show ends, the other begins, with the awful narration by S.S. She is too difficult to listen to, her distinct voice a forever awful reminder of her spewing deplorable lies in 2016. She needs to go away. I will never watch or listen to anything she's involved with again. All of my family and friends feel the same way.

Worst narration ever. Cannot even watch the series, she is that awful. Why on earth would she get a role such as this? Content may be good and worth watching; however, I can't get past her horrible voice.

I've ALWAYS been fascinated with true crime and what life would be like to be in prison or death row. This show combines it all. It tells the story of the crime, gives the death row inmate's take, and then let's the prosecution and defense explain their sides. I hear other reviews on here complaining that Susan Sarandon is narrating it. I couldn't care less. Kermit the Frog could narrate it. I'm interested in the substance of the narration, not the voice. This show is extremely factual. It let's you decide what side you're on.