Capital Punishment Book and Film List

Readings

Non-Fiction

  • A Saint on Death Row: The Story of Dominique Green (Thomas Cahill)
  • Just Mercy (Bryan Stevenson)
  • Dead Man Walking (Sister Helen Prejean)
  • Bloodsworth: The True Story of the First Death Row Inmate Exonerated by DNA Evidence (Tim Junkin)
  • The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
  • Redemption: The Last Testament of Stanley Tookie Williams (Stanley Tookie William)

Films

Non-Fiction

Documentaries

  • The Execution of Wanda Jean (2002)
  • At the Death House Door (2008)
  • Into the Abyss (2011)
  • Fourteen Days in May (1987)
  • Robert Blecker Wants me Dead (2008)

Based on True Stories

  • Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story (2004)
  • Dead Man Walking (1995)
  • Pierrepoint: The Last Hang Man (2007)
  • Monster (2003)

Fiction

  • The Life of David Gale (2003)
  • The Chamber (1996)
  • Last Dance (1996)
  • The Green Mile (1999)
  • Just Cause (1995)
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