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Author
Language
English
Description
Eliza Benedict's peaceful suburban life is shattered after being contacted by Walter Bowman, the man who kidnapped and held her hostage as a teen in 1985, and who now claims to want forgiveness while on death row. An edgy, utterly gripping tale of psychological manipulation.
2) The paperboy
Publisher
Millennium
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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.
3) The chamber
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adam Hall is an idealistic young attorney who takes on the death row clemency case of his one-time Klansman grandfather, Sam Cayhall. With just 28 days before the execution, Adam sets out to retrace the events leading to the crime for which Sam was convicted. As the impending death sentence looms closer, Adam works quickly to uncover the family's history for any hidden clues. In a white-knuckle series of twists and turns, Adam discovers deceptions...
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Director's cut.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
3 DVD (approximately 8 hours) : sound, color, DVD video ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Daniel Holden is committed to living in the present. Unfortunately, there are many places and faces in his hometown that remind Daniel of the past; his incarceration, Hanna, and his role in Hanna's murder.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
2 DVD (5 hours) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It follows the life of Daniel Holden, who returns to his small hometown in Georgia after serving nineteen years on death row. Having spent his entire adult life waiting to die, Daniel must now try to find a way to cope with his past and forge a "normal" life with a future before him. Season three picks up on the very afternoon of Daniel's plea deal. Will the deal be accepted? Will Daniel be forced to leave town?
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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,...
9) High life
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Monte and his baby daughter are the last survivors of a damned and dangerous mission to deep space. The crew, death row inmates led by a doctor with sinister motives, has vanished. As the mystery of what happened onboard the ship is unraveled, father and daughter must rely on each other to survive as they hurtle toward the oblivion of a black hole.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (261 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sling blade: 25 years after committing an unthinkable crime, a quiet man named Karl is finally returning home. Once there he is befriended by a fatherless boy and his mother. As a strong relationship develops between Karl and the boy, a confrontation builds with the mother's abusive and sometimes violent boyfriend.
Monster's ball: Hank and Leticia inhabit stark, queasy realities of the contemporary South, he as a death row corrections officer and...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
3 Blu-rays (226 min.) : sound, black and white + 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Undertow: A gambler just out of wartime military service wants only to open up a mountain vacation lodge. Before this can take place, however, he is framed for murder and forced to go on the run.
Outside the wall: Paroled from prison after serving nearly half of his thirty-year sentence, Larry Nelson takes a quiet job at a country sanitarium. He falls for a nurse and also into a robbery syndicate.
Hold back tomorrow: A death row inmate has one final...
12) The green mile
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When John Coffey, a giant of a man, is brought to death row, prison guard Paul Edgecomb and his fellow guards discover something very unusual about him. Convicted for the sadistic murder of two young girls, but behaving almost like a child himself, Coffey seems to have a supernatural gift of healing living things. Expectations are turned upside down and the guards' sense of humanity is awakened in this adaptation of the novel by Stephen King.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
4 Blu-rays (approximately 564 minutes) : black & white, sound ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The black room: Twin brothers are born to a ruling family. One twin inherits a castle and becomes infamous for his sadistic behavior and murders the other twin, assuming his identity.
The man they could not hang: A doctor working on experiments to restore life to the dead is hanged for murder. Brought back to life by his assistant, he sets out to murder members of the jury that convicted him.
Before I hang: Sentenced to die for a mercy killing,...
14) Native son
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (108 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
In prison for murder and sentenced to death, Bigger Thomas, reflects on the circumstances that led to his fate.
Series
Indicator volume 280-289
Publisher
Indicator
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Limited edition.
Physical Desc
10 Blu-rays (34 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (115 pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm).
Language
English
Description
British director Michael J Murphy cut his teeth on a variety of homemade 8mm shorts and had completed three feature-length productions by the age of eighteen. Over the next five decades, Murphy would go on to make many more films across a variety of genres, dividing his production time between Greece, Portugal, and the UK, with family, friends, and local stage performers becoming his regular cast and crew in exchange for holidays in the sun. Containing...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Expanded edition.
Physical Desc
8 Blu-rays (1,192 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Salem's Lot: A novelist and a young horror fan attempt to save a small New England town which has been invaded by vampires.
The shining: A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
Creepshow: Five shocking macabre tales told in the style of classic '50s horror comics.
Stephen King's Cat's eye: A stray...
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