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Where To Stream Inside Story Season 1993 Episode 12

Rector Versus Clinton - The Killer And The Candidate

During the presidential primaries in 1992, would-be Democratic candidate Bill Clinton faced an agonising decision as Governor of Arkansas. A convicted killer named Rickey Ray Rector was languishingon death row in Clinton's own state awaiting execution, while pressure mounted to commute the sentence on the grounds that Rector was mentally unfit to receive the death sentence. Clinton was torn between his liberal sympathies and his need, as a politician, to take a tough stance on law and order....