Death Penalty Movies

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...

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

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

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

Fourty years ago, in May 1981, with François Mitterrand's election, some people were letting themselves dream about a better life while others...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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