Movies: Execution

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

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

How do you solve the problems of prison overcrowding, whilst also relieving the suffering of the families of the victims?...

This documentary film essay analyses controversial police procedures in Germany in autumn 1974, when in a number of the police interventions suspects were killed before being arrested or tried....

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

Japanese pose as coolies, blow up a train, are caught and shot....

TV documentary about Manfred Smolka, an officer of the GDR border troops who was executed in Leipzig on July 12, 1960. He had been ambushed after his escape to West Germany and a show trial was held after his arrest....

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...

“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)...