Capital Punishment Movies

Explores the realities of death-row inmates inside Huntsville (Texas) Unit, a prison with the highest number of executions in 1997. Features...

A mother finds it hard to believe that her son is convicted as a terrorist and is sent to gallows. Eventually, she loses her mental balance.

A farmer is unjustly convicted of a homicide he did not commit.

In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing he must successfully perform before the appearance of...

This early docudrama shows Auburn Prison and recreates the electrocution of Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley of the United States.

Documentary about the first human to donate his body to science so that it could be studied in the form of a 3D database of the entire anatomy that...

On 15 August 2004, a 16-year-old girl was hanged in a public square in Neka, a small Iranian town by the Caspian Sea. Atefeh Sahaaleh's death...

Procedure 769 is the document that lays down how a prisoner is to be executed. For the first time in 25 years the procedure was again followed in...

The hanging of child murderer, William Carr

A depiction in the hanging of Edward Heinson, an assumed criminal assault convict in Jacksonville, Florida.

A child murderess is led to her execution.

Documentary about a Texan family who exercised a new state right to watch the execution of the man who brutally killed two of their children.