Death Penalty Movies

A film about convicted drug smuggler Myuran Sukumaran, who became an accomplished artist before he was executed by firing squad in Indonesia in April...

Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.

François Toledo, married businessman and father, falls head-over-heels in love with Janine, a work colleague. However, he is soon found out:...

When housewife Frances Hannon is abducted and buried alive, detective Madeline Foster is brought in. With only 24 hours before Frances' oxygen runs...

An abused 15 year old is charged with a murder that carries the death penalty in this fact-based story.

On 9th of November 1983 two Australians, Kevin Barlow and Geoff Chambers were arrested at Penang Airport in Malaysia carrying 179 grams of Heroin. A...

After the universal abolition of the death penalty, an executioner is assailed by murderous impulses. He then discovers that against all...

We do not know when and how we will die. Death Row inmates do. Werner Herzog embarks on a dialogue with Death Row inmates, asks questions about life...

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

This documentary explores two horrific stories. With haunting interviews with the killers, plus emotional exchanges with the daughters.

The documentary, " Death and the Judge", revolves around Iran's most famous criminal judge, Azizmohammadi. He served as a criminal judge for 45 years...

When ambitious young correctional officer Aiman is transferred to the country's highest-security prison, he catches the attention of the seasoned...

Scott Mills travels to Uganda where the death penalty could soon be introduced for being gay. The gay Radio 1 DJ finds out what it's like to live in...

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

Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.

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

A woman attempts to obtain the consent of the victim's family to release her husband from the death penalty, meanwhile, the husband is suffering from...

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitler’s, a leader of the notorious SA and the...

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...

Israel, 1961. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, responsible for organizing the extermination of European Jews, is sentenced to death.