Requiem for Frank Lee Smith
A FRONTLINE- Documentary (60 min.)

In December 2000, after spending 14 years on Florida's death row, Frank Lee Smith was finally cleared of the rape and murder of 8-year-old Shandra Whitehead. Like nearly 100 prisoners before him, Smith's belated exoneration came as a result of sophisticated DNA testing that was unavailable when he was first convicted.

But for Frank Lee Smith, the good news came too late: 10 months before he was proven innocent, Smith died of cancer in his jail cell, just steps away from Florida's electric chair. How did Frank Lee Smith end up on death row for a crime he didn't commit? And why was he allowed to die there despite possible evidence of his innocence?