Director hopes new film 'The Phantom' sparks Biden to curb death penalty

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True-life documentary tells of a man wrongly executed for a crime he did not commit. FMTNews ThePhantom DeathPenalty

Promotional image featuring Carlos DeLuna, who was wrongfully given the death sentence.

Just before she died, the young woman had called police to describe a suspect. Forty minutes later, Carlos DeLuna, a 20-year-old with a long criminal record, was found hiding under a car and arrested. But when shown photos of men by that name, DeLuna was unable to identify Hernandez. The prosecutor insisted that “Carlos Hernandez” was a figment of DeLuna’s imagination – a “phantom”. He was convicted and sentenced to death.In 2004, Columbia University law professor James Liebman, intrigued by the case, launched an investigation of his own with the help of his law students and a private detective.

He methodically tracked down key figures – police, prosecutors, lawyers and witnesses, as well as women who were victims of Hernandez’s violence.

 

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