The Racial Disparities in the Death Penalty.
Attorney Bryan Stevenson is the Executive Director of the fledgling Alabama Capital Representation Resource Center. He represents prisoners on Alabama's death row, and tries to persuade other lawyers to do the same on a pro bono basis. He's a graduate of Harvard Law School, and he earns $25,000 a year in his job. He was raised in rural southern Delaware, and says the people he defends are much like people he grew up with, but who didn't get the breaks he did.
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The Gospel to Pop Rule.
Rock historian Ed Ward looks at some pop singers who got their start in gospel. Artists discussed include Sam Cooke, Johnny Taylor, The Five Royales, Aretha Franklin, Lou Rawls, James Brown, and Shirley Ceasar.
Actor Miguel Ferrer.
Actor Miguel Ferrer. He played the caustic FBI pathologist Albert in "Twin Peaks." And was a bad executive in the film "Robocop." For a short while he had his own TV show, "Broken Badges," which followed his work on "Twin Peaks." Now he's starring in David Lynch's new sitcom, "On the Air." Ferrer is the son of singer Rosemary Clooney, and actor Jose Ferrer.
A Disappointing Series.
T-V critic David Bianculli reviews "Home Fires," the new show from the creators of "St. Elsewhere." Three different episodes are airing tonight, Thursday and Saturday on NBC, a stunt the network is using to get viewers to sample a new show.
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