A crusading reporter plans his own arrest and conviction for first degree murder, trying to show that the death sentence should be outlawed when based on circumstantial evidence alone, but his plan goes awry.
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daug...
A farmer is unjustly convicted of a homicide he did not commit.
A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sen...
When a brilliant crime writer investigates a 40-year-old murder, he confronts a small town's worst f...
Following in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific execu...
A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, ...
In this fact-based made-for TV film, Gary Gilmore, an Indiana man who just finished serving a length...
The documentary, " Death and the Judge", revolves around Iran's most famous criminal judge, Azizmoha...
Ruth Ellis lives with her ten-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blak...
A golddigging femme fatale leaves a trail of men behind her, rich and poor, alive and dead.
A woman and her angry mother travel together to the execution of a man they never met.
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New W...
Following a tragic plane crash, newspaper columnist Peyton MacGruder happens upon a hastily-written ...
An LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal loophole...
In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Cr...
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children ...
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find o...
We do not know when and how we will die. Death Row inmates do. Werner Herzog embarks on a dialogue w...
Liberal district attorney decides to seek the death penalty for a man who slaughtered a family at Ch...
A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women an...