Death Row Stories

An elderly white widow is brutally murdered, and Edward Lee Elmore, is quickly found guilty and sentenced to death. Elmore's execution seems inevitable until Diana Holt, a legal intern devotes her life to saving his.

Former Sacramento law school student Gloria Killian seemed an unlikely person to mastermind a brutal home invasion and murder. Her cause seemed lost until Joyce Ride, the mother of Sally Ride, America's first female astronaut, became intrigued by her case.

Army vet Joe D'Ambrosio was sentenced to death for the 1988 murder of Tony Klann, whose body was found floating in a Cleveland creek. No one listened to Joe's pleas of innocence until Father Neil Kookoothe began investigating the case‚and discovered a shocking cover-up.

When a wealthy young businessman is shot dead in New Orleans, cops pursue a John Thompson, and secure his conviction on capital murder charges. Two lawyers agree to represent him, but soon discover that the legal rules they've lived by don't necessarily apply in the Crescent City.

Rookie police officer James Duckett is sentenced to death for the rape and murder of an eleven year-old girl. Fourteen years later, Marshall Frank, a detective, gets a letter from Duckett and becomes convinced of his innocence. It leads him down an unexpectedly sinister path.

The wife and two children of an Air Force captain are murdered, and Army sergeant Tim Hennis is sentenced to death for the crime. Many question his guilt and begin a journey through the American justice system with twists and turns both bizarre and unprecedented.

Kris Maharaj, a wealthy British businessman, is sentenced to death for a double homicide in a luxury Miami hotel. Attorney Cive Stafford Smith uncovers powerful evidence supporting an alternative explanation of the killings.

After seventeen years on death row for mass murder at a Chuck E. Cheese's restaurant in Aurora, Colorado, Nathan Dunlap's fate resides in the hands of one man: Governor John Hickenlooper.