On March 5, 1986, Sean Sellers killed his mother and stepfather, Vonda and Lee Bellofatto, while they were asleep in the bedroom of their Oklahoma City home. He was sentenced to death.
Phil Rees reports for the BBC's Correspondent programme on the key reason why President Milosevic and his influential wife Mira Markovic remain in power despite losing Kosovo.
For 16 years, the guerrillas of Polisario fought a bloody battle with Moroccan soldiers for the Western Sahara. In 1991, the fighting stopped and the territory's inhabitants, the Saharawis, were supposed to decide their future in a referendum. But the voting process has been repeatedly delayed, leaving the conflict unresolved and 170,000 Saharawis as refugees in the Algerian desert.
Licence to Kill is the follow-up to last year's award-winning documentary, Murder in Purdah, on the killing of women in Pakistan.
In early 1999, Romanian Connection an independent charity known for the their humanitarian work in Romania, are sent photographs of children in an orphanage in Hincesti, Moldova, in an appalling state of neglect.
Three stories investigate the geography of Europe's genes
Europe's far right political parties believe they're entering a golden age of opportunity-nationalist feeling is growing in many European countries.
Investigating the effects of the Danube cyanide spill. The world's media passed through Bozinta Mare in early February. The residents of this small village in the foothills of the Carpathians had never experienced anything like it. But then they had never experienced anything like the reason for their sudden close attention.
Alongside Serbia, Montenegro is the only nation to remain in President Slobodan Milosevic's Yugoslavia after Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia parted amid war. Last year, Montenegro's pro-Western leader, Milo Djukanovic, threatened to call a referendum on its independence from Serbia unless Milosevic changed his policy toward the smaller republic. Milosevic has refused to budge.
At an Athens party for the movers and shakers in world shipping the drinks flow freely. Life is good. But the industry funding this champagne lifestyle is coming under increasing scrutiny following one of Europe's worst environmental disasters.
An estimated half a million women are being transported to Western Europe by sex traffickers every year. It's a multi-million pound business where, for the traffickers, the rewards are high and the risks are low. But, for the girls, the consequences are brutal and potentially dangerous. Following a route which begins in the former Soviet Republic of Latvia and leads to Denmark, Ireland and the UK, Sue Lloyd-Roberts uncovers a murky, cruel world in which employment agencies seduce young women with false promises, unscrupulous pimps abuse them and the police and judiciary turn a blind eye to this contemporary form of slavery.
This week's Correspondent is a journey along the river Euphrates, through Turkey, Syria and Iraq. It traces the political and environmental impact of Turkey's project to harness the river through a series of dams, and exposes the extent to which people's lives in all three countries are being affected by the Turkish scheme.
The war in Bosnia was one of the most traumatic - and dramatic - assignments of my career. For myself and all my colleagues who stuck it out, long term, those wasted cities - Sarajevo, Mostar, Maglay, Travnik, Vitez, Jajce-places that are now off the map, forgotten - are indelibly burned in my mind. They are no longer big stories. But I can't forget them, and I doubt I ever will.
Tom Gibb, who covered El Salvador's civil war for the BBC, follows Maria Leticia - who always believed she was an El Salvadoran orphan - on a journey to meet her birth parents for the first time and to discover one of the darkest legacies of the Cold War.
In this week's Correspondent, David Akerman investigates the brutal murder of Congo's charismatic first prime minister 40 years ago.
Khiam prison was a detention and interrogation centre during the years of the Israeli occupation in Southern Lebanon. From 1985 until the Israeli withdrawal this May, thousands of Lebanese were held in Khiam without trial. Most of them were brutally tortured - some of them died.
Two images captured the hatred that has destroyed the peace process in the Middle East. Mohammed al-Durrah, the boy from Gaza, shielded by his father but still dying under a hail of bullets fired by Israeli soldiers and the lynching and brutal murder of two Israeli reservists by a Palestinian mob.
Phil Rees travels to the Basque Country to find out why so many young men and women growing up in a prosperous part of Western Europe are prepared to kill a stranger
The Mexican police have arrested an Egyptian chemist, suspected of murdering over 200 people in the border town of Juarez in the past seven years. But have they got the right man? Bruno Sorrentino investigates.
The world is knocking at India's door to try to meet the insatiable demand for software engineers. Mike Wooldridge charts the progress of two young men in southern India who are seeking a life of opportunity in the cradle of hi-tech, California.
Chilean judge Juan Guzman this week interrogated Chile's former military ruler, General Augusto Pinochet. The questions centred on the actions of a military squad, known as the Caravan of Death.
Few things could be more threatening than a once powerful army in disarray - and that applies to Russia. In this atmosphere of heightened suspicion and tension, Vladimir Pozner, Russia's most celebrated Television reporter gets to know the Rocketchiki, the men on Russia's nuclear front line.
The BBC's former Moscow correspondent Bridget Kendall asks how Vladimir Putin - a former KGB spy - emerged from nowhere and became the leader of the world's largest country.
Since it reintroduced the death penalty a quarter of a century ago, America has executed 695 people. Another 3,703 wait on death row. But a recent spate of releases of the wrongfully convicted has triggered alarm that America may be executing the innocent.
The BBC's East Africa correspondent Andrew Harding takes a chilling look at a murky world far removed from the safaris and the wildlife clichés of modern Kenya.
In the wake of the US and British bombing of Iraq, investigative film maker Gwynne Roberts finds evidence that suggests that Iraq may already have developed its own nuclear weapons.
Heather Saunders' husband was killed in Greece last year by the terrorist group November 17. N17 have been killing for a quarter of a century and no one has been caught. Edward Stourton travels to Greece to follow Heather's fight for justice.
'Mad cow disease' has created Europe's biggest public health challenge for half a century. We don't really understand BSE or the human equivalent. Could we have been looking for the answers in the wrong place? This is the story of the British farmer who thinks we have.
The BBC's Edward Stourton travels to Albania and France to examine women's rights in contemporary Europe.
In June last year the bodies of 58 Chinese men and women were discovered in a truck at Dover. As a British lorry driver is found guilty of manslaughter, Correspondent - a BBC documentary programme - has traced the tragedy to its source in an exclusive programme from Fujian, China.
With a British general election imminent, immigration policy holds a place close to the centre of the national stage. Desperately Seeking Asylum tells the story of one man's attempt to secure political asylum in Britain, and raises some fundamental questions about the way the system works.
Alan Little reports on the ruthless gangs that terrorize and kill in South Africa's prisons, and a brave attempt to reach out to the murderers and ask them to confront their actions.
Born in Syria, the writer and broadcaster Rana Kabbani returns to the Middle East to find out how Muslims have come to view the United States. Her journey takes her to Egypt, the United Arab Emerates and Iran.
Documentary film maker Taghi Amirani and his mainly Iranian crew gained rare access to Makaki, a refugee camp in Taleban-held territory. On 13 November, Kabul fell and the ripples of change in Afghanistan reached Makaki.
Correspondent investigates the modern trade in child slaves which robs them of their childhood. Olenka Frenkiel reports from the West Coast of Africa.
When Slobodan Milosevic waved goodbye to Serbia on the 28 June 2001 his final words were "farewell brother Serbs". It is ironic that Milosevic could be convicted on the evidence of his own brother Serbs - those he thought he could trust - and not on the word of an Albanian Kosovar. Nancy Durham reports.
Ten mass graves lie in the heart of an abandoned army camp - hard evidence of what happens to people who fall foul of Robert Mugabe. Despite a ban on the BBC reporting, John Sweeney uncovers Zimbabwe's culture of impunity for those who today torture and kill for Mugabe.
As growing concerns about human rights around the world help push arms sales up the political agenda, and New Labour continues to preach an ethical foreign policy gospel, reporter and novelist Will Self goes in search of the truth behind Britain's continuing addiction to the arms sales fix.
Correspondent looks at Bosnia and Kosovo where girls as young as 15 have been duped into working in brothels and forced to have sex with UN personnel. We find that the boys will be boys culture prevails and that international soldiers and police officers at the highest level are turning a blind eye. It is a shameful and disturbing tale.
Democracy was not to last long in Burma following independence from the British in 1948. A military junta soon took power, crushing any dissent. A country torn by ethnic differences, independence brought with it mass insurgency. The source - a deep rooted divide over national identity.
In December 2001, banks across Argentina closed their tills, shut down their ATMs and slammed their doors. Their customers were left out in the cold with no money. They still are.
On 17 November 1997, 58 tourists were murdered in Luxor, Egypt. Correspondent joined relatives from three families of victims as they returned to try to find out why and how it happened.
In a special Correspondent to coincide with Holocaust memorial week, Fergal Keane investigates how a terrible slaughter, three quarters of a century ago, has returned to haunt the relationship between Turkey and its western allies.
The Catholic Church did not tell the locals that Fr Fortune was a brutal, predatory paedophile. They organised delegations to two Bishops - wrote to the Papal Nuncio and the Vatican. The church promised it would do something. It never did.
As many Chinese find love through dating agencies, they can find themselves coming into conflict with both communist and traditional values.
Reporter Ben Anderson visits the countries branded "evil" by George W Bush. His first destination is North Korea, a hermit kingdom which lives with paranoid propaganda and fear of nuclear war.
Reporter Ben Anderson poses as an archaeology enthusiast to gain access to Iraq, where he talks to locals about the impending war.
Correspondent shows a first hand account of one family's struggle to defend their land and their lives against government supporters in Zimbabwe.
In the third part of a Correspondent special exploring the countries that George W Bush has condemned, Ben Anderson travels to Syria, Libya and then on to Iran, where he is arrested and held for seven days accused of spying.
Reporter Ben Anderson is in Cuba. He finds life in Havana stifling, while in the countryside he searches for Castro's revolutionary legacy
Reporter John Sweeney gleans information from inside Iraq, the corridors of power at Opec and at world summits to build a picture of how Iraq might look without its dictator.
Tom Mangold unfolds the story of an undercover cop in Tulia, Texas, who arrested one tenth of the town's black population on alleged narcotics charges. Five cases have already been overturned, others are on appeal, championed by a new campaign by the US Civil Rights movement to see justice.
This once-secret Russian city is where the Soviet Union made its vast arsenal of chemical weapons. Reporter Tim Samuels ventures inside, finding it a surreal place with a shortage of men.
Mordechai Vanunu has been imprisoned for 16 years for exposing Israel's secret nuclear bomb factory to the world. Vanunu is seen as a traitor in his own country. He has been abandoned by most of his family and has spent 11 years in solitary confinement. Today only an American couple, who have legally adopted him, are among the few visitors he is permitted.
The US military is expanding its role into public high schools. As part of the Correspondent strand, reporter Charles Wheeler explores whetherthis is the solution to the problem of the country's troubled inner-city schools or part of a recruitment drive targeting the younger generation?
Any day now, the government will finally stop deliberating on the euro. They are due to tell us whether or not Britain has past the five Gordon Brown tests. This is arguably our biggest economic decision since the Battle of Hastings. So, BBC economics editor, Evan Davis previews the government's decision, by taking a whistle-stop tour of four eurozone countries.
The USS Abraham Lincoln, a huge floating battle station with 6,000 men and women on board, played a crucial role in the Iraqi war. For this Correspondent special, cameras follow the ship from the last tense days of the diplomatic discussions prior to the outbreak of war through to the air bombardment of Baghdad. Among those revealing how they feel about the war - and America's role in it - are the crew of a Prowler jet, a young female technician plus one of the few Muslims on board.
Controversial Arab news broadcaster al-Jazeera has said it was justified in showing images of dead and captured coalition soldiers in the Iraq war.
Saving Private Jessica: Fact or fiction Correspondent challenges the Pentagon's version of a story that boosted American morale during a sticky point in the Iraq War as part of its investigation into allied propaganda.
In June 2002 Israel began construction of a massive security fence in the area of the Green Line, the unofficial border where Israel meets the occupied West Bank.
In the Philippines, where Osama Bin Laden 's right-hand man plotted many terror attacks, US troops are helping soldiers deal with brutal Islamic militants who behead hostages. However, some mistrust the Americans' motives - including the daughter of the former president, who's now also a politician.
Prize fish, chandeliers, repro Louis XV chairs - the Ali Babas of Baghdad loot anything and everything from the dictator's palaces.
With Saddam Hussein gone, North Korea's Kim Jong-il is regarded as the world's most dangerous man.
Film-makers John O'Sullivan and Gard Andreassen follow a team of US National Guard Special Forces volunteers on their mission to clear Afghanistan of weapons, the Taleban and al-Qaeda.
As Dr Rebecca Gomperts sails the Langenort - a floating abortion clinic - into Poland, we follow the ensuing conflict and legal battles in a country where abortion is almost entirely banned.
British cameraman James Miller was shining a torch onto a white flag when he was shot dead in May in Palestine. Within seven weeks, in a three-mile radius, an American and another Briton were also victims. James's friend, John Sweeney investigates the state of Israel when even foreigners are under threat in this Correspondent report.
America's President will not talk with him. Israel's Prime Minister wants to exile him. Why has Palestinian President Yasser Arafat become an outcast? Jeremy Bowen travels to Palestine to investigate Arafat's commitment to peace, and asks whether there can be a settlement of the Middle East conflict without the man who has led the Palestinians for nearly four decades.
It is wedding season in India. All over the country the booming middle class is spending a fortune on dowries - bikes, fridges, microwaves, cars and large amounts of cash - all in the attempt to find a suitable husband.
Mexico City is one of the most crime-ridden cities in the West. The police force is underpaid, unmotivated and inefficient. In a desperate bid to cut crime, the Mexicapolice hired Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, to assist them.
About half a million people around the world are shot dead every year with illegally traded guns; most of the victims are civilians.