Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999)

Directors

Errol Morris

Cast

David Irving, Frederick Arthur Leuchter, Jr.

The story

Using film made at American prisons, Leuchter talks about his upbringing where his father was a corrections officer. Through his family associations, young Leuchter claimed he was able to witness an execution performed in an electric chair. Leuchter's impression of the event was that the electric chairs used by American prisons were unsafe and often ineffective.

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