Dallas Strip Clubs: Miniseries recounts Spaniard’s death-row ordeal
The story of a Spanish man who spent 37 months on death row in the United States before his sentence was overturned will be told in a television miniseries in Spain, producers said Thursday.
Plano a Plano Producciones said it had reached an agreement with Joaquin Jose Martinez to produce the two-episode miniseries that will focus on his experience in jail and the efforts by his parents to secure his release.
Martinez was detained in Tampa, Fla., in 1996 for the slaying of a couple — a drug trafficker and his stripper girlfriend — a year earlier.
A U.S. court initially found him guilty and sentenced him to death, sparking protests outside the U.S. embassy in Madrid criticizing the death penalty.
But he was acquitted in June 2001 after a retrial and was warmly received by a crowd of supporters when he returned to Spain.