A Woman's Vengeance (1948)

Cuando el despiadado asesino en masa Horace Pinker es electrocutado por sus horribles crímenes, un pacto con el diablo le transforma en algo incluso más aterrador, un demonio sobrecargado capaz de poseer el cuerpo y la mente de los demás... y está decidido a seguir con su escalada de violencia.

1963. Dos policías que patrullan por las calles de Hollywood paran a una pareja de sospechosos. En un momento de despiste, uno de ellos saca una pistola, los desarma. A continuación, los policías son conducidos a un lejano campo de cebollas, donde uno de ellos es brutalmente asesinado mientras que el otro consigue escapar.

Narra la historia de Albert Pierrepoint, el último hombre ejecutor de la horca en Gran Bretaña, en los años 30 del pasado siglo.

El editor de un periódico, que quiere demostrar un punto sobre la insuficiencia de pruebas circunstanciales, convence a su posible yerno Tom de que cometa un engaño en un intento de exponer la ineptitud del fiscal de distrito de línea dura de la ciudad. El plan es que Tom plante pistas que conduzcan a su arresto por matar a una bailarina de club nocturno. Una vez que Tom es declarado culpable, debe revelar la configuración y humillar al fiscal.

Charles E. Reece, un maníaco asesino, se introduce en dos apartamentos de California con una pistola automática y comete seis asesinatos con un macabro ritual: corta los cuerpos de sus victimas con un cuchillo de cocina para, seguidamente, introducir los órganos en bolsas de plástico y, más tarde, beber la sangre.

Ruth Ellis trabaja sirviendo bebidas y consolando a hombres en un sórdido club nocturno londinense. Una noche Ruth conoce a David Blakeley, un rico y atractivo piloto de carreras, e inician un tormentoso romance. Pero pronto las diferencias sociales que existen entre ambos se irán haciendo cada vez más y más evidentes, hasta que David decidirá abandonarla para encontrar a alguien de su misma clase social. La noticia será muy mal recibida por Ruth...

En Inglaterra, corriendo la década de los 50, el torpe Derek Bentley se incorpora a un grupo de delincuentes menores que lidera Chris Craig, un adolescente que se deshace por los filmes de gángsteres norteamericanos. La amistad que surge entre ambos les conduce hacia la implicación en un caso auténtico en el que el jurado condenó a muerte a Derek Bentley por el asesinato de un oficial de la policía pistola en mano. El caso Bentley hizo mella en la conciencia social de Inglaterra poniendo en duda la razón de ser de la pena capital.

Documental que relata los hechos relacionados con el asesinato y secuestro de dos hermanas sucedido en Filipinas en 1997, por el que fue condenado el estudiante de 19 años Paco Larrañaga.

Narra la historia real de Gary Gilmore, un hombre condenado a prisión por robo a mano armada, que cuando sale de la cárcel comete dos crímenes y es condenado a la pena de muerte.

Barefoot Bobby Briggs, the legendary running back for the Austin Steers was today sentenced to die for his role in the armed robbery/murder at a downtown Stop 'n Go convenience store... It's five years later, and Bobby's appeals have all but run out, and the Austin Steers are - once again - on the march to the Superbowl, with a lock on the playoffs, when their wide receiver has a season ending injury. With their playoff hopes in shambles, the Governor of Texas controversially offers Bobby a furlough -- from death row -- to help rescue the Steers' post-season hopes, and even play in the Superbowl.

Cuando está a punto de ser ejecutado, un condenado revive los hechos que lo condujeron a morir en la silla eléctrica.

When a brilliant crime writer investigates a 40-year-old murder, he confronts a small town's worst fears.

Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, determined to serve his country by his part in meting out justice to criminals. His superior, Regan, however, realizes that even prisoners are human beings, and Regan is sick of the eye-for-an-eye attitude that leads the state to execute condemned men, or "quare fellows." Crimmins begins to see that not all is black and white in his new world, and when he becomes involved with Kathleen, the wife of one of the condemned men, his attitude begins to change. When new evidence arises to suggest that Kathleen's husband may not deserve his fate, Crimmins is torn between his duty and his humanity.

This early docudrama shows Auburn Prison and recreates the electrocution of Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley of the United States.

A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.

A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.

In a mythical Japan, Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor, has been appointed Lord High Executioner and must find someone to execute before the arrival of the ruling Mikado. He lights upon Nanki-Poo, a strolling minstrel who loves the beautiful Yum-Yum. But Yum-Yum is also loved by Ko-Ko, and Nanki-Poo, seeing no hope for his love, considers suicide. Ko-Ko offers to solve both their problems by executing Nanki-Poo, and an agreement is reached whereby Ko-Ko will allow Nanki-Poo to marry Yum-Yum for one month, at the end of which Nanki-Poo will be executed, in time for the arrival of the Mikado. But what Ko-Ko doesn't know is that Nanki-Poo is the son of the Mikado and has run away to avoid a betrothal to an old harridan named Katisha. The arrival of the Mikado brings all the threads of the tale together. This is the Stratford Festival of Canada, directed by Brian Macdonald. This is a filmed version of a stage performance, and the sets are beautifully spare and economical.

Explores the realities of death-row inmates inside Huntsville (Texas) Unit, a prison with the highest number of executions in 1997. Features interviews with prisoners, guards, officials, lawyers and victims' family members.

In 1747, a handsome but rebellious Scotsman named Richard Abdee is auctioned off as a slave on a Caribbean island controlled by French and British sugar-planters. When caught having sex with his owner's wife, Abdee is given 100 lashes with the dreaded "dragonard" whip. This sentence is meant to be fatal but Abdee survives and later joins in a slave revolt which puts an end to the island's era of savage whippings.

Una madre y su hija atraviesan el estado para presencia una ejecución largamente esperada.