In this preview of “Freedom to Live: The Death Penalty,” compelling stories of people personally affected by America’s capital punishment system offer a unique window into its unfairness and inhumanity. Their firsthand accounts show how the system executes people for crimes they didn’t commit, sends mentally ill people who can’t even recall their actions to their deaths, burdens the poor with abysmal legal counsel, and deprives people forever of an opportunity for redemption and reformation. “Freedom to Live” also demonstrates that when people get involved, lives can be saved. 

The Freedom Files
Season Two of the series premieres this fall with a slate of nine programs on the death penalty, same-sex marriage, same-sex parenting, voting rights, immigrants’ rights, surveillance, sex education, the school-to-prison pipeline, and unlawful imprisonment, torture and habeas corpus.  Filmmaker and political activist Robert Greenwald, whose ground-breaking political films include Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers and Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism, is the executive producer of the series. Richard Ray Perez, an award-winning documentary filmmaker (Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election), lead the production team for Season Two.
 

The American Civil Liberties Union
The American Civil Liberties Union works daily in courts, legislatures and communities to protect the individual liberties, rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution and the laws of the United States. Founded in 1920, the ACLU is a nonpartisan, nongovernmental organization with more than 550,000 members. It has offices in all 50 states and employs more than 150 permanent staff attorneys and 2,000 cooperating attorneys, litigating more than 6,000 cases annually.

For more information go to http://www.aclu.tv.