Death Row Movies

Chuck Toedan hosts the most controversial show on TV: Live or Die, where deathrow inmates compete against each other for a chance to beat the...

A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.

This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true...

A reporter sets out to provide how unreliable circumstantial evidence is by faking a murder and then taking the rap for it. However, the "fake"...

After his death sentence is commuted to life in prison, John Resko is transferred from Sing-Sing to Dannemora where, with the help of a humane prison...

The film chronicles the life and revolutionary times of death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.

John Gacy was a notorious serial killer who was on death row for 14 years. After lethal injection was administered, it took him far too long to...

In China more people are on death row than the rest of the world combined. The children of the convicts are often left alone, stigmatized and living...

When a teenager from a political family in the Philippines is accused of a double murder, the country’s entire judicial system is put to the...

"Satanism Unmasked" investigates the supernatural influence Satanism, witchcraft, and Dungeons & Dragons.

Nine vignettes depict the stages leading to execution for women on death row.

Convicted killer Laurence Dvorak grants an exclusive last interview to TV newswoman Alana Powers shortly before his scheduled execution. Urbane and...

Walter Karat is a former White House Chef whose fall from grace has landed him in the kitchen of a maximum security prison cooking for death row...

Explores the realities of death-row inmates inside Huntsville (Texas) Unit, a prison with the highest number of executions in 1997. Features...

A lonely Singaporean death row guard tries to help a young Australian convicted of drug trafficking accept her fate despite a bizarre contradiction -...

A man condemned to execution tries to convince two women that he is not their son and brother, and that they must get on with their lives.

Jeffrey Ferguson has been on death row for 26 years. Now he has just one hour left before he is put to death. Would you forgive the man who killed...

Saeki works with death-row convicts as a prison chaplain. He tries to instill the prisoners with a sense of morality and help them become a better...

Look into the personal lives of women currently awaiting execution on Death Row. Though each woman is convicted of committing society's ultimate...

Melissa Lucio was the first Hispanic woman sentenced to death in Texas. For ten years she has been awaiting her fate, and now faces her last appeal.