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 mother finds it hard to believe that her son is convicted as a terrorist and is sent to gallows. E...
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daug...
In 1747, a handsome but rebellious Scotsman named Richard Abdee is auctioned off as a slave on a Car...
An innocent man is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, but as he's about to be hanged he ...
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...
A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sen...
Following in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific execu...
Ruth Ellis lives with her ten-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blak...
Following a tragic plane crash, newspaper columnist Peyton MacGruder happens upon a hastily-written ...
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New W...
An LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal loophole...
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find o...
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children ...
In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Cr...
A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women an...
A woman and her angry mother travel together to the execution of a man they never met.
A farmer is unjustly convicted of a homicide he did not commit.
When a brilliant crime writer investigates a 40-year-old murder, he confronts a small town's worst f...
We do not know when and how we will die. Death Row inmates do. Werner Herzog embarks on a dialogue w...