Redemption Or Retribution: Director Smriti Mundhra On Oscar-Shortlisted Death Row Doc ‘I Am Ready, Warden’

“I am ready to go. I am ready, Warden.” These were the last words of death row inmate John Henry Ramirez shortly before his execution in the Polunsky Unit of the Department of Criminal Justice in Livingston, Texas. This final statement became the foundation for filmmaker Smriti Mundhra’s documentary — and the title of the