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Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the true story of Gary Gilmore and the tragic chain of events which led him to commit two cruel and senseless murders. These crimes would eventually cause him to become the first person in over ten years to be executed in the electric chair. This "director's cut" combines elements from the 97-minute European theatrical release with the original 157-minute U.S. TV miniseries.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A frustrated teacher in a southern town, whose education is being underutilized, finds his own purpose in helping bring meaning to the last days of a young man due to be executed. In teaching one person to die with dignity, he redeems himself.
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Description
In 1980, Ted Bundy was sentenced to death by electrocution. In the years that followed, he agreed to disclose the details of his crimes, but only to one man. During the early days of the agency's criminal profiling unit, FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier met with the incarcerated Ted Bundy in the hopes of understanding the psychology of the serial killer and providing closure for the victim's families. As Hagmaier delves into Bundy's dark and twisted mind,...
4) Crossed over
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : digital., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The true story of the powerful and healing friendship between a grieving mother and death row inmate Karla Faye Tucker.
5) True crime
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A boozing, skirt-chasing and hard-living reporter realizes a death row prisoner scheduled to die at midnight is innocent. He races against time to save the man and perhaps lift his own life out of the trash heap.
Publisher
Distibuted by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An ill-fated young couple are separated when he is put in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Convicted felon Eddie Taylor decides to lead the straight life with his devoted girlfriend, Joan, who arranges for his early parole. She agrees to marry him, but a bank robbery gone bad points accusing fingers at the innocent Eddie. Taking Joan on the lam, Eddie is caught in a cat-and-mouse chase with the law closing in just a few steps behind them! This...
7) Just cause
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A law professor is drawn into appealing the case of a death row inmate who may have been railroaded into a conviction by vindictive cops.
8) The paperboy
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It takes audiences deep into the backwaters of steamy 1960s South Florida, as investigative reporter Ward Jansen and his partner Yardley Acheman chase a sensational, career-making story. With the help of Ward's younger brother Jack and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless, the pair tries to prove violent swamp-dweller Hillary Van Wetter was framed for the murder of a corrupt local sheriff.
10) Just mercy
Publisher
Warner Bros
Formats
Description
A powerful and thought-provoking true story follows young lawyer Bryan Stevenson and his history-making battle for justice. After graduating from Harvard, Bryan had his pick of lucrative jobs. Instead, he heads to Alabama to defend those wrongly condemned or who were not afforded proper representation, with the support of local advocate Eva Ansley. One of his first and most incendiary cases is that of Walter McMillian.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (960 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Description
Most men would do anything to get out of jail, but Michael Scofield will do anything to get in. His brother has been sentenced to die for a crime he didn't commit, and the only way to save him is from the inside out
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment, distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
2 DVD (121 min./127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Absolute Power : Hew was where he shouldn't have been and saw what he shouldn't have seen. Now, who will believe the word of a career thief and ex-con? Who will trust Luther Whitney when he says he saw a woman killed and that the man responsible for her death is the President of the United States.
True Crime : Boozer. Skirt chases. Careless father. You could create your own list of veteran reporter Steven Everett's faults, but not right now. A...
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
2 blu-rays (330 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Convicted for a murder he did not commit, a quiet banker struggles to cope with prison life and develops a friendship with another inmate; when John Coffey arrives on the death row cellblock at Cold Mountain Penitentiary, the prison guards discover that he has mysterious powers hidden within him.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Examines capital punishiment through conversations with death row inmate Michael Perry and those affected by his crime. In his exploration of a triple homicide case iin Conroe, Texas, master filmmaker Werner Herzog probes the human psyche to explore why people kill, and why a state kills. As he's so often done before, Herzog's investigation unveils layers of humanity, making an enlightening trip out of ominous territory.
15) I want to live!
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hr., 1 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A screen adaptation of the dramatic events in the life of a "B-Girl," Barbara Graham, a vagrant prostitute and fast-living party girl, which led to a sensational murder trial and afterwards, her execution in the gas chamber despite growing doubts about her guilt. The background music is made up in its entirety of progressive jazz.
17) Native son
Author
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (108 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1940's Chicago, a young black man's life takes a tragic turn after he accidentally kills the daughter of his white employer and then tries to cover it up.
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