If all goes well for a handful of local prosecutors and for 71 per cent of America's electors, the United States is about to reaffirm its belief in the ultimate penalty. One man, Gary Gilmore , was shot dead in January at his own request. Today, over 350 men, women and teenagers on America's death rows await their turn to die. What happens to them may have implications for Britain and the rest of the world. Nick Ross and a Man Alive Report film crew have travelled to the American mid-West, and report on the revival of the death penalty in America, together with the results of a Gallup poll on capital punishment commissioned for the programme in Britain.