Death Penalty Movies

Today, the ritual of giving the last supper to the condemned person has been detached from its origin, and can be perceived to be as absurd as the pun...

A camera crew follows Edward Earl Johnson, a man falsely convicted of rape and murder, during his last 14 days on death row. Everyone involved is inte...

Valeh, a member of a leftist organization, is arrested by the SAVAK and sentenced to death. In prison, he reconsiders his relationships with members o...

Three extraordinary people embark on journeys of recovery, discovery and rebellion and find themselves centre stage in the biggest capital punishment...

Approaching Rudi's execution (Mirna's Husband),Mirna was asked to come to the prison with a Lasagna. Her husband wishes to enjoy the Lasagna with Mi...

Depicts the case of religious persecution suffered by the Christian Pakistani Asia Bibi (Aasiya Noreen),falsely accused of blasphemy in 2010 by a Pak...

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 is...

Forty years after the abolition of the death penalty in France, voted on September 18, 1981, the guillotine remains in the collective imagination as t...

An adaptation of the J.P. Sartre story "Le Mur". What goes on in his mind and what happens outside when he has left only few more hours left to live....

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

Nine vignettes depict the stages leading to execution for women on death row.

Scott Panetti was tried for the capital murder of his parents-in-law on September 8, 1992 in Gillespie County, Texas. He was subsequently sentenced to...

This documentary recounts the dysfunctional state of the death penalty in the state of California by revisiting the crimes, arrest, trials and appeals...

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 Cali...

A man is facing a trial for murdering a Latvian union leader, which more likely than not will end with a death sentence. A close-up look at his emotio...