A man is found guilty of murdering a woman by way of circumstantial evidence, and is executed. Afterwards, it is discovered that his supposed victim is not dead at all, but working as a prostitute in a Western city. Scenario was written for the screen by Maibelle Heikes Justice, who was an outspoken opponent of capital punishment.
This early docudrama shows Auburn Prison and recreates the electrocution of Leon Czolgosz, the assas...
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daug...
Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, d...
This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. Th...
In 1747, a handsome but rebellious Scotsman named Richard Abdee is auctioned off as a slave on a Car...
In this fact-based made-for TV film, Gary Gilmore, an Indiana man who just finished serving a length...
A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, ...
A crusading reporter plans his own arrest and conviction for first degree murder, trying to show tha...
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New W...
A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sen...
An LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal loophole...
A mother finds it hard to believe that her son is convicted as a terrorist and is sent to gallows. E...
An innocent man is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, but as he's about to be hanged he ...
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...
When a brilliant crime writer investigates a 40-year-old murder, he confronts a small town's worst f...
In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Cr...
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.