Judgment Day Should the Guilty Go Free (2003)

Each year in the United States over 200000 prisoners face a parole board that must make the difficult judgment of whether these convicted criminals are ready to gain their freedom and return to society This documentary focuses on three inmates in Louisiana Nevada and Massachusetts with a range of chilling crimes a fathers murder by his troubled son a crime of passion by a respected NASA scientist and a shootingrobbery on the streets of Las Vegas Incorporating interviews of key characters with extensive testimony footage and reenactment sequences that explore the life and crime of the inmate the film vividly examines the conflicting needs of the victim the criminal and the community while testing our own notions of justice