เป็นเรื่องย้อนอดีตที่ พอล เอดจ์คอมบ์ เล่าให้ อีเลน คอนเนลลี่ เพื่อนหญิงที่พักอยู่ที่บ้านพักคนชราฟัง เขาอยู่ที่นี่มานานกว่า 60 ปีหลังจากเกษียณ เขาเคยทำงานเป็นหัวหน้าผู้คุมนักโทษประหารที่ Cold Mountain Penitentiary งานของเอดจ์คอมบ์ ในขณะประจำการที่ Cold Moutain ทางใต้ ในยุคของการกดขี่ด้านชนชั้น คือการดูแลนักโทษประหาร 4 คนที่รอการเดินทางผ่านเส้นทาง ที่เรียกว่า กรีนไมล์, ทางเดินสีเขียวที่นักโทษใช้เป็นทางเดินออกจากกรงขัง ..ไปสู่เก้าอี้ไฟฟ้า เป็นเวลากว่าหลายปี ที่เอดจ์คอมบ์เดินไปบนทางเดินนี้ พร้อมกับนักโทษหลายต่อหลายประเภท แต่เขาไม่เคยรู้สึกผูกพันกับใครเหมือนอย่างที่รู้สึกกับ จอห์น ค็อฟฟี่ นักโทษผิวดำร่างยักษ์ ที่ต้องคดีฆาตกรรมเด็กหญิงสองคน ถ้าดูจากรูปร่างของเขา มันเป็นเรื่องไม่ยากที่จะฆ่าใครสักคน แต่พฤติกรรมของเขา กลับตรงข้ามกับสิ่งที่ใครๆ เห็น เขารักสงบ อ่อนโยน และกลัวความมืดเป็นที่สุด นอกจากนี้ค็อฟฟี่ยังมีพลังพิเศษเหนือธรรมชาติ สิ่งเหล่านี้ก่อความสงสัยในใจเอดจ์คอมบ์ว่า ค็อฟฟี่สังหารเด็กหญิงสองคนนั้นจริงหรือไม่
จิ๊กซอว์อาจตายไปแล้ว แต่กลับมีการค้นพบเทปลึกลับในท้องระหว่างการชันสูตรศพ ซึ่งเผยให้ตำรวจเห็นว่าแผนการชั่วร้ายของฆาตกรผู้นี้อาจเพิ่งเริ่มต้น
After Charles Forsyth was sent to the electric chair for a crime he didn't commit, he forever haunts the prison where he was executed. Flash forward several years when the prison is reopened, under the control of its new warden Eaton Sharpe, a former security guard who framed Charlie. When prisoners are ordered to break down the wall to the execution room, they unknowingly release the angry spirit of Charles Forsyth, a powerful being distributing his murderous rage to all, leading up to the Warden himself.
Alex Corvis, a man wrongly executed for the murder of his girlfriend, returns from the dead and sets out to find the real killer.
A prison guard begins a tentative romance with the unsuspecting widow of a man whose execution he presided over.
Bumbling bank janitor Ernest P. Worrell is assigned to jury duty, and soon finds himself in trouble when he is covertly switched with a look-a-like crime boss. Ernest must escape from jail to expose the mix-up.
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.
There is an old wives tale that you should hold your breath when passing by a cemetery because an evil spirit rejected by both heaven and hell can get inside of you when you inhale. Somewhere in a carload of college kids on holiday doesn't follow the rules when driving by a graveyard, allowing a spirit of a recently executed serial killer to get inside him/her to begin a killing spree of body-jumping carnage.
After surviving the electric chair, convicted serial killer Max Seed is buried alive. He digs himself out of the grave and goes on a killing spree. Taking revenge on the men who put him there and random unfortunates alike.
Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist political beliefs.
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.
Despite vocal objections from Warden Blakely, prison psychologist Diana Purlow journeys deep inside the mind of serial killer Jesse Mowat in a desperate attempt to reveal the source of his psychotic tendencies.
An executed serial killer, an escaped mental patient, a beautiful seductress, a crazed strangler, and a masked murderer unleash blood-soaked mayhem over the course of one night.
Bugs Bunny escapes hunters by leaping into his rabbit hole and tunneling to safety. Unhappily he tunnels into the Sing Song prison where a sadistic prison guard named Sam Schultz refuses to accept that he's anything but one of the prisoners. Soon Bugs is in stripes, but it's the guard who will find prison life to be hell when Bugs Bunny is around to trick him into a cell, the hangman's noose, an electric chair and even into the warden's office, where Bugs will put a severe strain on the relationship between boss and underling. Finally, Sam decides that enough is enough.
A psychologist, a psychiatrist and a prison warden open up a long-closed prison, unaware that the ghost of an electrocuted convict haunts it.
A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Told in flashback, we witness a sleazy dancehall girl (Vivienne Osborne) dupe a high rise riveter (Edward G. Robinson) into marriage so she can live off of him. But when he loses his job and his marbles, she ends up supporting him with money from her side man--and misses no opportunity to rub it in his face that she's now supporting him in his emasculated state. As the animosity grows and things get more and more unbearable, he is eventually driven to desperate measures.
A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blamed for murder of guard.
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
Rod Steiger stars as a vigilante who with the aid of his helper, Isaac Hayes, captures men who he considers evil and executes them in his homemade electric chair.
An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a computer starts to re-examine his life and his priorities.