Dan Walker calls Death Row documentary Dead Man, the 'most emotional show I made' runs

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Dan Walker confessed that his documentary for the death series “The emotional program I've ever made”.

The news reader and the broadcaster traveled to the USA to meet those who meet the Channel 5 Film Dead Man Walking: Dan Walker in Death Row, where he explores the US death penalty system. The documentary is out of air tonight, Wednesday, May 7th.

Walker, who often talks about his Christian faith, told Loose Women on Wednesday that he had found the trip to a terrifying experience and opened some terrifying moments that he had experienced in prison.

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Despite his own religious views, Walker quickly turned to loose women, to whom his documentary Dead Man Walking from Channel 5 was neither a professional nor an anti -capital penalty.

He said that he was interested in learning more about the US law system, and admitted that he was particularly impressed that there could be hundreds of prisoners who were waiting for a death sentence that was wrongly condemned.

After his own opinion on the system after filming the documentary, he said: “I don't know what the answer is. But I will say it is the emotional program that I have ever worked on. Sometimes I felt angry, I felt angry, I felt desperate and the weight of this decision (to end someone's life), which is a big decision to be found for the rest of her life.”

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Walker added that he confronted his own family before he had flown to the USA to film.

“I always struggle with the final and the certainty of saying that it is right to kill someone,” he said. “I had a conversation with my children before I went out and my 15-year-old daughter said: 'Hold on a minute, they say to everyone that it is wrong to kill someone, and then they say that the punishment to kill someone to kill themselves. How added?'”

“I didn't know how great an influence in this industry had on the people who do it,” he continued when he remembered to meet people whose task was to bind prisoners to their beds before executing. “They could see the mental scars on their face how they talked about what they had seen. It will live with them forever.”

Walker added: “From the perspective of faith, I found fascinating that it was about who we are and how we see our fellow human beings and women and what we think about the holiness of life. These are really big questions that we all have to think about.”

Dan Walker's terrifying experiences in the death cell

The journalist, who took part in Strictly Come Dancing in 2021, also remembered the terrifying experience of meeting a double killer for an interview in Death Row.

He said he imagined and the convicted Charles Thompson told him that he knew who Walker had to thank his penpalen in Great Britain.

“I tried not to react, and then he said he only knew that he knew where I had worked,” he said about the troubled meeting.

Walker also spoke about a sobering excursion into the room where the bends took place. He said: “I've never been to a room like him. Because you can see how many people have ended your life in this room, there is a weight and you can almost feel it when you go in for the first time.”

Dead Man Walking: Dan Walker in the death cell will be broadcast on Channel 5 this evening (May 7th) at 9 p.m.

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