Death Row Movies

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

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...

Valerie's prosecutor mom is trying to put away Adam, an alleged serial killer on trial for murdering six women. But he's so charming that the teenage...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

Today, the ritual of giving the last supper to the condemned person has been detached from its origin, and can be perceived to be as absurd as the...

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

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

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...

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

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

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