Capital Punishment Movies

Documentary covering the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a black nationalist and journalist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, convicted of killing a...

Based on Norman Mailer’s landmark 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning true-life novel.

The Guillotine examines the fascinating and bizarre history of the "national razor" that started out strictly for execution and then became a source...

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

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

Edward de Bono literally sketches out the future in a 90 minute lecture filmed in Copenhagen. He explains 2040 as seen by someone frozen...

Investigates the issue of capital punishment by focusing on six death row inmates and the circumstances of the 13 murders they committed...

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

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...

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.

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

A child murderess is led to her execution.

The hanging of child murderer, William Carr