Death Row Movies

A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments....

Today's the day the Missouri madman Otis Boyle finally gets executed. The Warden and his Captain of the Guards, York, have been looking forward to...

Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row...

British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who...

On the day of his scheduled execution, a convicted serial killer gets a psychiatric evaluation during which he claims he is a demon, and further...

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

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible...

In this fact-based made-for TV film, Gary Gilmore, an Indiana man who just finished serving a lengthy stay in prison, tries to start anew by moving...

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 psychologist interviews a death row inmate to determine whether or not a stay of execution should be granted.

A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to 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.

The story of the Filipina domestic helper who was hanged in Singapore for allegedly killing her fellow maid is chronicled in a film that operates on...

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.

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

A reporter returns to his Florida hometown to investigate a case involving a death row inmate.

The daughter of a man on death row falls in love with a woman on the opposing side of her family's political cause.

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 young, inexperienced public defender is assigned to defend an inmate accused of committing murder while behind bars.

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