Death Row Movies

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...

Russell Gates (David Strahairn) is a Vietnam vet on death row for killing a policeman. His childhood sweetheart, Pam O'Brien (Sissy Spacek), is...

As a woman walks the "last mile" to her execution she remembers back to the incidents that got her framed for murder.

Today, the ritual of giving the last supper to the condemned person has been detached from its origin, and can be perceived to be as absurd as the...

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...

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.

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...

Geraldo Rivera investigates allegations of a widespread Satanic underground in the United States.

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

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.

Documentary covering the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a black nationalist and journalist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, convicted of killing a...

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

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

After 23 years on Death Row a convicted murderer petitions the court asking to be executed, but as his story unfolds, it becomes clear that nothing...

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

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...

A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and...

A story depicting the life of executed murderer and gang leader, Marciál "Baby" Ama. Ama, who became a gang leader with his prison mob while...

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