Death Row Movies

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...

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

Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning...

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

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

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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.

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

In the mid 80s during the Satanic Panic era Pastor Flether A. Brothers who was director of Freedom Village USA interviewed Satanic teen killer Sean...

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...