A Texas man was executed for a murder he likely didn't commit. A new documentary asks what went wrong

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : The documentary begins with Lopez's 911 call and follows the thread of the court case from there, beginning with DeLuna's conviction and execution and ending with Liebman's deconstruction.
46% : The Phantom, an 82-minute film by documentarian Patrick Forbes (whose previous topics of interest have included Brexit and Wikileaks, traces the story of what has been presented as one of the most flagrant miscarriages of justice in contemporary US history, and one of the most damning arguments against the death penalty.
46% : "The story is proof that the death penalty requires certainty if there is to be any justification for it," Forbes tells me. "
42% : "Because we can't ensure that we get these cases right every time, we must eliminate the death penalty," he tweeted at the time.
40% : He went on to highlight "serious concerns" about the death penalty, "including arbitrariness in its application, disparate impact on people of colour, and the troubling number of exonerations in capital and other serious cases".
38% : "We have no idea how many Carlos DeLunas there are among the well over 1,300 men and women executed since the reinstatement of the death penalty in the 1970s," Liebman writes in the book. "...
37% : Rather, it's an indictment on the system in which the death penalty takes place - one where, in this instance, "everything that could go wrong did go wrong."
30% : Back in July 2019, then-presidential candidate Joe Biden voiced his opposition to the death penalty, precisely because if the possibility of an irreversible, tragic mistake.
22% : Since then, Biden has become the first US president to openly oppose capital punishment, although he attracted criticism in the first months of his presidency for his lack of swift action on the issue.

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