It is educational to watch for people who are interested in true crime. Well made, but the agenda is hard to swallow. The pretension in the title narrative is a little ridiculous , "as a German coming from a different background", come on Werner, your country has no room to judge. I know this is supposed to make people not want capital punishment but watching this made me feel the opposite. Why not show the victims families and let's hear them cry? Or the people that suffered at the hands of these sociopaths. We should be able to hear both sides of the story. The interviewees lying and manipulating is transparent. Self-serving stories that are mostly beyond any logic. Plus alot are smug and laughing and joking, almost bragging in a way. Listen to George Rivas smug attitude about the crimes he committed in episode 3. One person in episode 3 we were supposed to sympathize with because he was just there tying up hostages when the murder happened. Really? You were involved in felony crime after escaping prison where an innocent police officer was killed on Christmas Eve and your only excuse is " I didn't shoot him". You had no choice but to escape because you had 18 life sentences? What's that 3 years with parole ? Episode 4 a man that murdered a woman and stabbed two young boys to death. He was too drunk or high to remember as an excuse. The most simple explanations to all these is usually the correct one. They are murders and committed these various crimes, the only reason they feel sorry is they got caught and are going to pay. These are last ditch efforts to play on soft and privileged people's sympathies. I say privileged because most people have not had to live with the actions of these people or been preyed upon by predators, I imagine if they did they would have a different opinion. It's really offensive to victims families and comes from a point of view of people who have never suffered being the victims of crimes. Very little real remorse from these criminals, it's mostly non existent but occasionally an attempt is made to fake it. I am sorry, but.....me,me,me. Better to watch some of the true crime shows that show both sides, hear from the victim's families then decide the death penalty isn't warranted. Try telling it to the mother and father of a murdered child. You can always drum up exceptions to anything if you dig, but by and large they mostly deserve exactly what they get.
Review of On Death Row
