Living With Murder: Part 2 (Rebroadcast)
The FRONTLINE Dispatch
GBH
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2019
⏱️ 41 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.
This is Part Two of his story.
This episode was a collaboration with Transom.org.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Rainey Aronson, executive producer of the PBS series Frontline and you're listening to the frontline |
| 0:09.7 | this time we continue our rebroadcast of living with murder. |
| 0:14.0 | The Front Line Dispatch is made possible by the Abrams Foundation Journalism Initiative, |
| 0:21.0 | committed to excellence. |
| 0:23.5 | The Frontline Dispatch is made possible by the Abrams Foundation, committed to excellence |
| 0:28.1 | in journalism, and by the Frontline Journalism Fund, with major support from John and Joanne Hagler. |
| 0:34.0 | Support for Frontline Dispatch comes from the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, |
| 0:39.0 | dedicated to providing the latest therapies and cancer specialists who are experienced in your cancer. |
| 0:43.8 | When you hear the word cancer, their team is ready. |
| 0:46.4 | Learn more at mass general.org |
| 0:49.0 | slash cancer. |
| 0:50.1 | If you haven't listened to the previous episode in the series, we hope you'll do so now. |
| 0:58.0 | At the end of that episode, reporter Samantha Brown was in conversation with Kempis Songster. |
| 1:03.0 | Kempis is what's known as a juvenile lifer, |
| 1:06.0 | convicted of murder as a teen, |
| 1:08.0 | and sentenced to life in prison. |
| 1:10.0 | But now he may be given a second chance. |
| 1:13.0 | Samantha's mother survived a violent crime committed by a juvenile lifer who was also given a second chance. |
| 1:21.0 | As Samantha says, she and Kempis are an unlikely pair. Up now in |
| 1:27.8 | collaboration with the public radio website transom.org, we bring you the second |
| 1:32.4 | part of living with murder. |
| 1:35.0 | A caution, this program contains descriptions of violence and may not be suitable for some |
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