Death Row Movies

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

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

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

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

When a teenager from a political family in the Philippines is accused of a double murder, the country’s entire judicial system is put to the...

Valerie's (Amanda Peterson) prosecutor mom is trying to put away Adam (Christopher Atkins), an alleged serial killer on trial for murdering six...

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

Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.

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

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 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...

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 reporter sets out to provide how unreliable circumstantial evidence is by faking a murder and then taking the rap for it. However, the "fake"...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

Reunion movie from the popular TV series reunites most of the original cast from the Los Angeles law firm of McKenzie-Brackman. In the eight years...