Death Row Stories

Capital-murder cases are examined in this documentary series.

10 Votes (7.7)

2014 HD 41min TV-MA United States English Returning Series
Crime Documentary

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S1E1 - Edward Lee Elmore: Innocence and the Intern 2014-03-09

Tenacious legal intern Diana Holt, comes across the case of African American handyman, Edward Lee Elmore and devotes her life to saving his when he is quickly found guilty in the murder of an elderly white widow and sentenced to death.

S3E1 - Two Brothers 2018-03-18

After an eleven-year old girl is found suffocated with her own underwear, two step-brothers, ages 15 and 19, confess to the murder. But with IQs each under 60, they maintain their innocence and claim their confessions were coerced. Despite the lack of physical evidence against them, they sit behind bars for 30 years before an outside commission takes notice of their case and uncovers evidence pointing at another suspect.

S3E2 - NYE Foul Play 2018-03-25

In 1995, Hank Skinner was sentenced to death for the New Years Eve triple-homicide of his family; five years later, students from the Northwestern University start to investigate the case.

S3E3 - Love Kills 2018-04-01

When 19-year-old Stacey Stites body is found half-naked by the side of the road, her fiancé, police officer Jimmy Fennell, is cleared as a suspect.

S3E4 - Snitch Work 2018-04-08

A 4-year-old girl from Philadelphia is found murdered, her body placed in a TV box; years later, a neighbor is arrested for the crime.

S3E5 - Mississippi Mother 2018-04-15

Sabrina Butler, a 17-year old African-American woman, arrives at a Mississippi hospital with her baby dead on arrival; nurses and doctors suspect foul play, and Sabrina cannot give straight answers about what happened to her baby.

S3E6 - Murdered Babysitter 2018-04-29

The details behind true capital murder cases; exploring beliefs of the death penalty and the American justice system.

S3E7 - Feds vs. Outlaws 2018-05-06

Clarence "Smitty" Smith, the leader of the notorious biker club the Outlaws, is accused of a quadruple homicide in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; after beating the rap for the homicides, he is sentenced to death for the car bombing of a federal witness.

S3E8 - Family Lies 2018-05-13

After a family of six is found brutally murdered in a rural Texas town, a perpetrator confesses to the crime.

S4E1 - The Boy's Story 2019-06-02

A money order salesman is brutally murdered and two teenage brothers and their best friend are arrested; they spend almost four decades behind bars, until a journalist takes notice of the case and uncovers evidence of the mens innocence.

S4E2 - Web of Lies 2019-06-09

The shooting of a newspaper carrier in rural Mississippi lands Marlon Howell on death row. Convicted on the word of two co-defendants and the identification of an eyewitness with a checkered past, Marlon maintains his innocence.

S4E3 - A Prison of His Own 2019-06-16

Nick Yarriss uncanny knowledge of a gruesome kidnapping and murder makes him a prime suspect and eventually lands him on death row. Twenty years and one escape attempt later, new evidence emerges that offers Nick one last hope for freedom.

S4E4 - A Woman Wronged 2019-06-23

A man is found dead in his rural Mississippi home, shot four times with his own 9mm pistol. His 19-year-old son names his hospitalized mother, Michelle Byrom, as the mastermind of the murder, claiming she hired the boys friend to shoot her husband, and promising to pay him from the life insurance payout. Sentenced to death, Michelle spends 14 years awaiting execution - until a determined team of lawyers unearths a dark history of domestic and sexual violence, and a confession that points to an alternate suspect.

S4E5 - Body of Evidence 2019-06-30

After a month-long search, the body of missing nineteen-year-old Melissa Trotter is recovered in a Texas forest. Local police quickly zero in on Larry Swearingen, who was last seen with Melissa just before she disappeared. After physical evidence and the murder weapon tie Larry to the murder, he is convicted and sentenced to death. Twenty years later, Larry maintains his innocence, pointing out flaws in the States case - including incomplete DNA tests, an alternate suspect, and forensic evidence that suggests Melissa may have been killed after Larry was arrested.

S4E6 - Murder in Broad Daylight 2019-07-07

A case that has sentenced a reformed gang member to death unveils the corruption in the criminal justice system.

S4E7 - Caught on Tape 2019-07-14

A Spaniard is sentenced to death for the murder of a young Florida couple. His family appeals to the international media to fight his conviction.

S4E8 - Memory of a Murder 2019-07-21

A masked attacker shoots up an apartment in Bucyrus, Ohio, leaving three dead and two young children clinging to life. After witnesses report seeing a "large black man" near the scene, police close in on Kevin Keith, a local drug dealer who was recently busted based on information offered by a snitch. It was the snitchs family that was murdered, leading prosecutors to argue Kevins motive was revenge. Despite the lack of physical evidence, Kevin has spent 25 years locked up - but a young public defender believes long-hidden case records will shed new light on the Bucyrus murders and clear Kevins name.

S5E1 - The Lost Boy 2020-04-19

A former trouble-maker sits on Ohio death row for killing an elderly couple, while a desperate team of journalists, attorneys, and former law enforcement make the case of his innocence.

S5E2 - Tale of the Tape 2020-04-19

After a Delaware store clerk is murdered, a local drug dealer confesses to the crime..but can what he says on tape be believed?

S5E3 - Predator or Prey? 2020-04-26

Theres no doubt Terry Williams committed murder - but what drove him to kill?

S5E5 - Death By The Bayou 2020-05-10

After Shreveport pizza delivery man Jarvis Griffin is shot and robbed outside his car, police round up eyewitnesses and tape their interrogations. 16-year-old Corey Williams becomes the prime suspect, and under questioning, police extract his confession. Prosecutor Hugo Holland handles the case for Caddo Parish, the county with the most death penalty convictions per capita in America, and Corey becomes the youngest person on Louisiana death row. But when a dogged team of defenders takes on his case, they learn that that not only is Corey’s confession questionable — but that hidden police interviews with other eyewitnesses point to another suspect.

S5E6 - The Wrong Gun 2020-05-17

In May 1992, four young men enter a park in Houston, Texas. Minutes later, one of them is dead from a bullet and a shotgun blast to the head. When police track down one of the surviving drug dealers, he names 17-year-old Nanon Williams as the shooter, and other witnesses back up the story. Nanon becomes one of just over thirty juveniles on death row in America, but he pleads his innocence. As his appeals attorneys reexamine the evidence, they learn that the state made a grave error: the bullet in the victim’s brain didn’t come from Nanon’s gun, but his co-defendant’s — a man who only served four years in prison. Prosecutors stand by the conviction, even as Nanon tries to prove he’s redeemed himself behind bars.

S5E7 - The Hit That Wasn't 2020-05-24

When Tyreese Gamon is shot dead in broad daylight on a street corner, he becomes one of hundreds of murder victims in Philadelphia that year. Tyreese had a target on his back: he was slated to testify in a murder trial. Police follow the evidence to a suspected hitman named Donte Thomas. Despite his checkered past, Donte insists he’s no murderer — yet prosecutors sway a jury to sentence him to death. Years later, Donte’s appeals defender pokes holes in his original trial, including the phone allegedly used to orchestrate the hit and the failure of Donte’s original attorney to present crucial evidence.

S5E8 - Once Bitten, Twice Tried 2020-05-31

When single mother and Phoenix bartender Kim Ancona is found brutally stabbed to death, her passing tears her family apart. Combing the crime scene, police find an intriguing clue: bite marks on Kim’s body that suggest her attacker has crooked teeth. Detectives turn to Ray Krone, a local mailman with a damaged jaw. A renowned prosecutor pushes for a death sentence, but Ray’s family and appeals attorney refuse to give up hope. They win Ray another trial, forcing him to go up against the same bite mark science that put him away the first time. Ultimately, Ray’s freedom depends on the emerging science of DNA — and finding Kim’s true killer.