Fourteen Days in May

3/13/2026

If there was ever to be a documentary to convince us of the profound flaws of a legal system that implements the death penalty, then this might be it. James Earl Johnson has been on death row for eight years following his conviction for the murder of a local deputy and the attempted rape of a sixty year old woman. Both were white, but the extent to which that might have mattered when the charges are killing a cop and assaulting an old lady are maybe less significant that the necessity for the authorities to apprehend someone plausible and quickly. This documentary spends two weeks with this man, his lawyer, his family and the prison staff as appeals come and go and the gas chamber beckons. This film doesn’t explore the judicial process nor bog us down in court proceedings; instead it focus