In the first episode of sea­son 2 of ​“Death Row Stories,” CNN exam­ined the case of Ruben Cantu, who was exe­cut­ed in Texas in 1993 despite seri­ous doubts about his guilt. The episode fea­tured an inter­view with Sam Milsap, the District Attorney at the time of Cantu’s tri­al, who assert­ed his belief in Cantu’s inno­cence. Cantu’s co-defen­dant and a key eye­wit­ness from the case both sup­port­ed Cantu’s claim of inno­cence. The hour-long episode of the doc­u­men­tary series recount­ed how Lise Olsen, an inves­tiga­tive reporter for the Houston Chronicle, raised ques­tions about the case and even­tu­al­ly con­vinced Milsap that Cantu was not guilty. ​“Death Row Stories” is pro­duced by Robert Redford and nar­rat­ed by Susan Sarandon. It airs Sundays at 10 pm. Other episodes this sea­son include the sto­ries of Randy Steidl and Seth Penalver, who were exon­er­at­ed and freed from death row.

(“Death Row Stories,” CNN; S. Gallman, ​“From seek­ing the death penal­ty to fight­ing it,” CNN, August 7, 2015). See Innocence and Multimedia.

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