Death Penalty Movies

Hardened criminal Maggie Hayward's consistent violence, even in police custody, ends in the execution chamber. However, top-secret US government...

A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, who refuses to swear the Oath of Supremacy...

Three hours outside of Addis Ababa, a bright 14-year-old girl is on her way home from school when men on horses swoop in and kidnap her. The brave...

Lewis, Sheriff and Tony are three friends vacationing in Malaysia. Sheriff and Tony eventually leave to pursue careers in New York, but Lewis stays...

British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who...

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

Barbara Graham is a woman with dubious moral standards, often a guest in seedy bars. She has been sentenced for some petty crimes. Two men she knows...

A desperate woman, whose son is on trial for murder, blackmails the judge and kidnaps his wife.

A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened.

Errol Morris's unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas.

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

Richard, a lonely and well-meaning prison officer, is put in charge of reading and censoring the letters received by inmates.

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

Every country that enforces the death penalty needs people to kill other people. Four men are put in front of an unthinkable but simple choice....

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's Fascist State in 1974.

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...

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

A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.

The movie tells the story of a woman who struggles and fights to escape the gas chamber being condemned with capital punishment because of her...