Nine programmes from the BAFTA award-winning documentary series Circuit Eleven Miami. 6: John A. Spenkelink (30) was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1973. He endured a six-year nightmare on Death Row, never faltering in his plea of self-defence. All the time, the mills of Florida justice were grinding slow, but remorselessly sure. By Thursday 24 May 1979, John Spenke link's life hung by a thread. At 1.30 pm, that thread snapped. The next day, at 10.0 am, John Spenkelink sat harnessed and immobile in the electric chair. At
10.18, he was declared dead. This film is a sobering analysis of what took place at Florida's first elecrocution for 15 years.
Executive producer ROGER MILLS
Producer MARK ANDERSON