Living With Murder: Part 1 (Rebroadcast)
The FRONTLINE Dispatch
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4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
At 15, after committing a brutal murder, Kempis Songster was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. But now he has a chance to be free, thanks to a series of recent Supreme Court rulings that found the sentences of thousands of inmates who, like Songster, committed their crimes as juveniles, to be unconstitutional.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Rainey Aronson, executive producer of the PBS series Frontline, and today we have some exciting news for you. |
| 0:10.0 | Last month, the Alfred DuPont Columbia University awards |
| 0:13.6 | announced that Frontline received its highest honor, |
| 0:16.5 | the gold baton. It's an award that hasn't been given in a decade. |
| 0:21.1 | One of the projects they cited was the Frontline Dispatches two-part series |
| 0:25.8 | Living with Murder, producing collaboration with a public radio website transom.org. |
| 0:31.9 | Today we're rebroadcasting the Living with Murder series along with a special |
| 0:36.2 | update episode which you can find in your podcast feed. |
| 0:40.9 | The Frontline Dispatch is made possible by the Abrams Foundation journalism initiative |
| 0:45.6 | committed to excellence. The Frontline Dispatch is made possible by the Abrams Foundation |
| 0:51.0 | committed to excellence in journalism and by the Frontline Journalism Fund with major support from John and Joanne Hagler. |
| 0:58.0 | Support for Frontline Dispatch comes from the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, |
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| 1:10.1 | Learn more at Mass General.org |
| 1:12.6 | slash cancer. |
| 1:15.6 | Living with murder looks at the issue of juvenile lifers, |
| 1:19.1 | prisoners convicted as juveniles and given mandatory life sentences, but a series of recent Supreme Court |
| 1:25.4 | rulings might change that. The US Supreme Court has offered a chance of release to |
| 1:30.2 | about 2,000 prisoners. Today, Justice Anthony Kennedy said |
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