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The difference between Julius Jones's and Carlos DeLuna's cases should give us pause about the nation’s death penalty.

Filmmaker Patrick Forbes examines the case of an innocent man sentenced to the death penalty in Texas.

Arrested in 1983 for murder and sentenced to death, Carlos DeLuna stood by his innocence. This documentary examines the unjust truth behind his case.

A gruesome 1983 murder in Corpus Christi, Texas, left two innocent casualties, one at the scene and another by lethal injection six years later. In “The Phantom,” documentarian Patrick Forbes observes this true-crime incident in the context of ingrained racism and the disproportionate number of people of color who die at the hands of the state. A photograph of murder suspect Carlos DeLuna, left, in custody, from the 2021 documentary “The Phantom.” (Greenwich Entertainment) In February 1983, gas station attendant Wanda Lopez was savagely stabbed; later that night, police apprehended ...

Patrick Forbes tells "Newsweek" how his new film "The Phantom" lays out how "everything that could go wrong, did go wrong" for DeLuna, who was executed in 1989.