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"Fourteen Days In May" / "Last Days On Death Row"
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... "Fourteen Days In May" / "Last Days On Death Row" In this second piece of GCSE coursework I am studying the media. Rather than try to cover all the different aspects of this enormous topic, I am going to look closely at two things: television and magazine. I have a unique opportunity to see how these two work by studying how they handle the same difficult and moving subject: the execution of Edward Earl Johnson in Mississippi state penitentiary in the U.S.A. This story started life as a request from a BBC producer to make a programme about the death penalty in America. When he received permission to go ahead, he did not even know who the victim of the execution would be. It just happened to be Edward Johnson. It was only as they got to know Johnson, and as they continued to film him, that they began to realise that














