At the Death House Door
7.6 /10 1 Votes
Initial DVD release June 23, 2009 Duration Language English | 7.4/10 IMDb Genre Documentary Music director Leo Sidran Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Director Steve James
Peter Gilbert Release date May 2008 (2008-05) Directors Steve James, Peter Gilbert Cast Carroll Pickett (Himself), Steve Mills (Himself), Maurice Possley (Himself (as Maury Possley)), Anne Ellis (Herself), Charlotte Hirschfelder (Herself)Similar movies The Last Witch Hunter , Captain America: The First Avenger , Pitch Perfect 2 , Jupiter Ascending , Frozen , The Avengers Tagline No man should die alone | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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At the Death House Door is a 2008 documentary film about Carroll Pickett, who served as the death house chaplain to the infamous "Walls" prison unit in Huntsville, Texas. It was produced and directed by the team of Steve James and Peter Gilbert, co-produced by Zak Piper and Aaron Wickenden. James and Gilbert had previously worked together on the well-received Kartemquin Films documentary Hoop Dreams, on which James was the producer and director and Gilbert served as producer and director of photography. The film was produced by Kartemquin Films in association with the Chicago Tribune, which provided partial funding.
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Pickett presided over 95 executions in his 15-year career, including the very first by lethal injection. He kept his feelings about his work from his family, instead audiotaping an account of each one. Initially pro-execution, he became an anti-death penalty activist.
Pickett was most affected by the execution of Carlos DeLuna in 1989. He firmly believed in De Luna's innocence. In 2006, Chicago Tribune reporters Maurice Possley and Steve Mills published a detailed investigation suggesting that another man had committed the crime for which De Luna was executed, and the film recounts the evidence brought forth in that investigation.
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