Death Row Movies

Richard, a lonely and well-meaning prison officer, is put in charge of reading and censoring the letters received by inmates.

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

We do not know when and how we will die. Death Row inmates do. Werner Herzog embarks on a dialogue with Death Row inmates, asks questions about life...

Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.

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...

In this documentary, filmmaker Nick Broomfield follows the saga of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute who has been accused of committing a brutal series of...

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 further investigation into the arrest of three teenagers convicted of killing three young boys in Arkansas who spent nearly 20 years in prison...

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

Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.

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

A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Told in...

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.

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...

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...

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.

Charlie Chan is sought out by Pamela Gray, a desperate young socialite whose brother Paul awaits execution for the murder of a weapons inventor....

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

A Death Row inmate uses his prison law studies to fight for his life. Based on a true story.