Redemption Or Retribution: Director Smriti Mundhra On Oscar-Shortlisted Death Row Doc ‘I Am Ready, Warden’
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deadline.com“I am ready to go. I am ready, Warden.” These were the last words of death row inmate John Henry Ramirez shortly before his execution in the Polunsky Unit of the Department of Criminal Justice in Livingston, Texas.
This final statement became the foundation for filmmaker Smriti Mundhra’s documentary — and the title of the film — I Am Ready, Warden.
The short, from MTV Documentary Films, recounts the emotionally charged story of Ramirez, who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 2008.
His victim was Pablo Castro, a convenience store employee in Corpus Christi, Texas. After stabbing Castro almost three dozen times in a botched robbery, Ramirez fled to Mexico; it took four years before he was apprehended and extradited.
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