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.
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 crusading reporter plans his own arrest and conviction for first degree murder, trying to show tha...
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...
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...
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 woman and her angry mother travel together to the execution of a man they never met.
Ruth Ellis lives with her ten-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blak...
An LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal loophole...
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New W...
In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Cr...
When a brilliant crime writer investigates a 40-year-old murder, he confronts a small town's worst f...
A farmer is unjustly convicted of a homicide he did not commit.
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find o...
A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women an...
Liberal district attorney decides to seek the death penalty for a man who slaughtered a family at Ch...
Based on a true story, James Coburn portrays a military lawyer assigned to defend a confessed psycho...