Movies: Execution

The Execution of Wanda Jean chronicles the life-and-death battle of Wanda Jean Allen, the first black woman to be put to death in the United States in the modern era....

Irishman Vincent Coke is facing execution on the electric chair after a lifetime of adventures, including smuggling rich Cubans from Cuba to the USA. While rebelling against the system, he finds an unexpected lifeline offered to him by the very syste...

Sonny and Dub once shared a cell. Now Sonny is a free man, but Dub is on death row and sentenced to be executed in a matter of days. As Sonny comes to visit Dub one last time, Dub has one last dying request for Sonny....

About Jonas Falk and his stepfather Anders Frid who are both tired of living in poor conditions. They jointly committed a robbery against a post office. The robbery is successful in the sense that they came across a large sum of money, but the fact t...

You wake up in a warehouse where a bunch of degenerates is willing to execute you....

In a public place in Constantinople at the corner of a bazaar, the executioner is seated upon a stone and is resting from his daily labors while eating a crust of bread. Suddenly there come running into the place a lot of Turkish men and women preced...

A compilation of various accidents, disasters, executions, and other acts of mayhem and human feats caught on film....

A story of two men, fighting over their love for the same woman....

We came to the end of the road. We told you the story of the establishment of a democracy throughout 9 episodes... We witnessed the collapse of a one-party regime. We witnessed the disappearance of the national chiefdom. Together we experienced the h...

A man awaits his execution by firing squad. His last wish before dying is a kiss, and there are only men....

A soldier is about to be executed because of his disobedience. The execution will be carried out by an ancient machine which engraves a sentence (the committed crime) on a man's skin. What would happen if silent-film fan Franz Kafka were to ask FW Mu...

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

After a slave uprising, 10 black mistresses of a white landowner decide to capture their master after he refuses to turn over his ill-gained wealth. A trial to decide his fate ensues....

Scott Panetti was tried for the capital murder of his parents-in-law on September 8, 1992 in Gillespie County, Texas. He was subsequently sentenced to death on September 22, 1995. Panetti has an extensive history of mental illness, including schizoph...

“A file of Spanish soldiers line up the Cubans against a blank wall and fire a volley. The flash of rifles and drifting smoke make a very striking picture.” (Edison film catalog)...

Though the drug does not belong to him, importing heroin gets Acai Nakrim locked up in jail which then leads to his death penalty. Before the execution day, he flees with the help of an old man....

During World War One, a British Army corporal tries to save his young friend from a terrible injustice....

A true crime noir about the execution of Ruth Snyder...

Documentary about abolitionist John Brown...

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