Movies: Capital punishment

  • 1967
    A Covenant with Death

    A Covenant with Death (1967)

    A Covenant with Death

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    An innocent man is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, but as he's about to be hanged he accidentally kills his executioner. He now faces a new trial, presided over by a young and inexperienced judge....

    A Covenant with Death
  • 1962
    The Quare Fellow

    The Quare Fellow (1962)

    The Quare Fellow

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    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 be...

    The Quare Fellow
  • 1987
    Dragonard

    Dragonard (1987)

    Dragonard

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    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 dreade...

    Dragonard
  • 2003
    The Virtual Corpse

    The Virtual Corpse (2003)

    The Virtual Corpse

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    Documentary about the first human to donate his body to science so that it could be studied in the form of a 3D database of the entire anatomy that is available to view online. Convicted killer Joseph Paul Jernigan donated his body to science shortly...

    The Virtual Corpse
  • 2008
    Mizhikal Sakshi

    Mizhikal Sakshi (2008)

    Mizhikal Sakshi

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    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....

    Mizhikal Sakshi
  • 1946
    The Man Who Dared

    The Man Who Dared (1946)

    The Man Who Dared

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    A crusading reporter plans his own arrest and conviction for first degree murder, trying to show that the death sentence should be outlawed when based on circumstantial evidence alone, but his plan goes awry....

    The Man Who Dared
  • 1998
    Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?

    Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt? (1998)

    Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?

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    Documentary covering the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a black nationalist and journalist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, convicted of killing a Philadelphia police officer and sentenced to death in a trial marked by controversial prosecutorial and defense...

    Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?
  • 2015
    Seamstress

    Seamstress (2015)

    Seamstress

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    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 h...

    Seamstress
  • 1997
    The Execution Machine: Texas Death Row

    The Execution Machine: Texas Death Row (1997)

    The Execution Machine: Texas Death Row

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    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....

    The Execution Machine: Texas Death Row
  • 2019
    November 1st

    November 1st (2019)

    November 1st

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    A woman and her angry mother travel together to the execution of a man they never met....

    November 1st
  • 1901
    Execution of Czolgosz with Panorama of Auburn Prison

    Execution of Czolgosz with Panorama of Auburn Prison (1901)

    Execution of Czolgosz with Panorama of Auburn Prison

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

    Execution of Czolgosz with Panorama of Auburn Prison
  • 1938
    Secrets of a Nurse

    Secrets of a Nurse (1938)

    Secrets of a Nurse

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    This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true incident, in which a gangster "returned from the dead" to save an innocent young man from the electric...

    Secrets of a Nurse
  • 1983
    The Mikado

    The Mikado (1983)

    The Mikado

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    In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing he must successfully perform before the appearance of the Mikado in a month's time, Ko-Ko finds a suitable victim in Nanki-Poo, who is distraught over his...

    The Mikado
  • 1903
    The Execution

    The Execution (1903)

    The Execution

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    A child murderess is led to her execution....

    The Execution
  • 1898
    An Execution by Hanging

    An Execution by Hanging (1898)

    An Execution by Hanging

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

    An Execution by Hanging
  • 1897
    The Hanging of William Carr

    The Hanging of William Carr (1897)

    The Hanging of William Carr

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    The hanging of child murderer, William Carr...

    The Hanging of William Carr
  • 2018
    Death and the Judge

    Death and the Judge (2018)

    Death and the Judge

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    The documentary, " Death and the Judge", revolves around Iran's most famous criminal judge, Azizmohammadi. He served as a criminal judge for 45 years and issued about 4500 death sentences; a record in not only Iran, but also the world. This documenta...

    Death and the Judge
  • 1917
    Who Shall Take My Life?

    Who Shall Take My Life? (1917)

    Who Shall Take My Life?

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    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 scree...

    Who Shall Take My Life?
  • 1916
    The People vs. John Doe

    The People vs. John Doe (1916)

    The People vs. John Doe

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

    The People vs. John Doe
  • 2006
    Execution of a Teenage Girl

    Execution of a Teenage Girl (2006)

    Execution of a Teenage Girl

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    On 15 August 2004, a 16-year-old girl was hanged in a public square in Neka, a small Iranian town by the Caspian Sea. Atefeh Sahaaleh's death sentence was for "crimes against chastity". Despite Iran being a signatory to an international convention th...

    Execution of a Teenage Girl