Death Row Movies

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...