Who Shall Take My Life? (1917)
Género : Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 0M
Director : Colin Campbell
Sinopsis
A man is found guilty of murdering a woman by way of circumstantial evidence, and is executed. Afterwards, it is discovered that his supposed victim is not dead at all, but working as a prostitute in a Western city. Scenario was written for the screen by Maibelle Heikes Justice, who was an outspoken opponent of capital punishment.
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.
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.
A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.
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...
Narra la historia de Albert Pierrepoint, el último hombre ejecutor de la horca en Gran Bretaña, en los años 30 del pasado siglo.
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.
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.
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.
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.
La historia del pirata más legendario de Europa.
This early docudrama shows Auburn Prison and recreates the electrocution of Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley of the United States.
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.
A mother finds it hard to believe that her son is convicted as a terrorist and is sent to gallows. Eventually, she loses her mental balance.
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.
A documentary film about Martta Koskinen, the last executed woman in Finland during the war in 1943. Martta was a Seamstress who lived in Helsinki during the Second World War. She was one of the post-civil war (in 1918) generation for whom the war had meant a disappointment in the system and failure in unity of the Finnish nation. The legacy of the civil war had left systems of persecution in place for those with socialist ideals. Martta and her fellow revolutionaries were determined to continue the resistance movement although they knew that at worst it could cost their lives. Martta was imprisoned twice before she was shot. She was an idealist, whose seemingly harmless, naive beliefs in peace and justice were the most dangerous traits a person could have at the time.
A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.
When a brilliant crime writer investigates a 40-year-old murder, he confronts a small town's worst fears.
