Death Row Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

The troubled teenager Owen Whitmore has a sleep disorder and occasionally sleepwalks. Owen is having therapy sessions with Dr. Katherine Ramos....

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

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

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

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 disgraced White House chef finds himself many years later working in a maximum-security prison cooking last meals for inmates 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....

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...