On Death Row

Werner Herzog meets death row inmate Robert Fratta - sentenced in 1996 in the murder of his wife, Farah, who was gunned down by a hired gunman in Texas. Fratta maintains his innocence in the face of overwhelming evidence exposed on screen.

With no discernable motive, Darlie Routier emphatically proclaims her innocence in the 1996 stabbing deaths of her two young boys, while conversations with investigators and family members both refute and explore possible underpinnings of the crime.

Drugs and religious delusions reportedly played a role when 18-year-olds Blaine Milam and Jessica Carson used an ouija board to summon their dead fathers and ended up with a dead child. Herzog speaks to Milam about the case and impending execution.

At his 1999 trial Douglas Feldman admitted to killing two truck drivers in a burst of homicidal road rage. Renowned filmmaker Werner Accesses surprising dimensions to Feldmans personality, while laying bare his chilling calculus for murder.