The Execution Protocol tells the harrowing story behind capital punishment in Missouri. It follows the daily lives of three condemned men and focuses on the execution team as well. "We are the instruments of the people and the justice system," say the officials. But the condemned men respond, "What they do is murder, as premeditated as any man here committed."

The Execution Protocol

On 20 November 1945, in what had once been the spiritual centre of the Nazi Empire, the first Nuremberg trial opened. Nuremberg examines the first trail in detail: the scale and speed of the US-led effort to place the Third Reich's leaders in the dock; the charges brought against them; the courtroom drama; the final judgements. Of the 21 defendants, three were acquitted, seven given jail sentences and the remaining eleven sentenced to death, among them Hitler's right-hand man, Hermann Goering.  This programme also explores the twelve subsequent trials against the backdrop of the emerging Cold War and the shifting allegiances of allies and enemies in the immediate post-war period.

Nuremberg

In October 1998, forty-five year old Benjy Nelson - former high school athlete and United States Air Force airman - had a sex-change operation. During his Air Force career, he began to dress as a woman - first at home, and then in public. For five years before his operation, Benjy dressed as a woman full-time. Debbie, his/her wife of seventeen years, fully supported his decision to cross-dress and then to have a sex-change operation. But, for their three teenage sons, their father’s choice has caused confusion and anger. This one-hour documentary shows the effects of that decision on the whole family, and leaves the viewer to decide...