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THE
EXECUTION OF WANDA JEAN
Sunday,
October 20
12:00pm
Little Theatre
On December 1, 1988, Wanda Jean Allen shot her longtime lover, Gloria Leathers, in the parking lot of an Oklahoma City police station. Once convicted and sentenced to death, Allen became the focus of a heated legal battle for clemency that attracted national media attention and the support of anti-death-penalty activists, including the Reverend Jesse Jackson.
Liz Garbus’ powerful documentary follows Allen and her lawyers during
the last three months of her life on death row. Through interviews with
Allen, her legal team, and members of both Allen’s and the victim’s
families, the film explores the many layers of its subject’s complex
personal history, as well as the myriad moral debates surrounding the
death penalty. An unflinching investigation of the place of the disenfranchised
within the American legal system, THE EXECUTION OF WANDA JEAN
tells a story in which lesbian domestic violence, race, class, gender
identity, and civil rights collide.
THE EXECUTION OF WANDA JEAN; Liz Garbus, director; 2002; USA; 88 minutes; video
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