เรื่องราวของคณะลูกขุน 12 คนที่เข้ามานั่งฟังการพิจารณาคดีของเด็กหนุ่มวัย 18 ปี โทษที่เขาจะได้รับหากถูกตัดสินว่ามีความผิดจริงก็คือ การประหารชีวิตด้วยเก้าอี้ไฟฟ้า หลังจากผู้พิพากษาไต่สวนคดีเสร็จสิ้นแล้ว ก็ถึงเวลาที่คณะลูกขุนทั้ง 12 คนจะเข้าไปปรึกษาตกลงกัน เพื่อมอบคำตัดสินแก่ศาลว่าพวกเขามีความเห็นอย่างไรโดยที่มีข้อแม้อยู่ว่าคำตัดสินของคณะลูกขุนทั้ง 12 คน จะต้องออกมาเป็นเอกฉันท์ 12 ต่อ 0 เท่านั้น เมื่อการโหวตครั้งแรกเสียงออกมาเป็น 11 ต่อ 1 เมื่อมีหนึ่งในคณะลูกขุนบอกว่า เขาไม่สามารถตัดสินให้จำเลยที่เป็นเด็กหนุ่มวัยเพียง 18 ปีมีความผิดได้
An emotionally scarred highway drifter shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her, and ultimately becomes America's first female serial killer.
ระหว่างสืบเบาะแสเหตุฆาตกรรมหลายคดี เจ้าหน้าที่สืบสวนผู้ช่ำชองเชื่อว่าฆาตกรต่อเนื่องที่โดนประหารชีวิตเมื่อหลายปีก่อนได้หวนกลับมาในคราบปีศาจร้าย
Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Before long, he's caught up with the nine men on his hit list and starts dispensing his own brand of Wild West justice.
แรงบันดาลใจจากเรื่องจริงของความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างแม่ชี และนักโทษประหาร การสืบสวนสอบสวน การลงโทษ และการไถ่บาป ทำให้ซูซาน ซาแรนดอนได้รับรางวัลออสการ์สาขานักแสดงนำหญิงยอดเยี่ยมปี 2538 และฌอน เพนน์ได้รับเสนอชื่อเข้าชิงรางวัลออสการ์สาขานักแสดงนำชายยอดเยี่ยม
Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner is slated to die at midnight – a man Everett has suddenly realized is innocent.
A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, who refuses to swear the Oath of Supremacy declaring Henry Supreme Head of the Church in England.
During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the guilty verdict handed down by the others as a result of their preconceptions and prejudices.
An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the country.
Ryan Harrison, a violin god, superstar and sex symbol does not want to cheat on sexy Lauren Goodhue's husband with her. Mr. Goodhue is found murdered and Ryan suddenly finds himself being the main suspect. After being sentenced to death he manages to flee while being transferred to his execution site. Now, all the world is after him as he stumbles from one unfortunate incident to the next in order to prove himself innocent - by finding a mysterious one-eyed, one-armed, one-legged man...
In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an underground resistance movement in Munich. Dedicated expressly to the downfall of the monolithic Third Reich war machine, they call themselves the White Rose. One of its few female members, Sophie Scholl is captured during a dangerous mission to distribute pamphlets on campus with her brother Hans. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to the White Rose, her cross-examination by the Gestapo quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility.
A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
In 1986 Iran, Sahebjam, whose car breaks down in a remote village, enters into a conversation with Zahra, who relays to him the story about her niece, Soraya, whose arranged marriage to an abusive tyrant ended in tragedy.
A vengeful spirit has taken the form of the Tooth Fairy to exact vengeance on the town that lynched her 150 years earlier. Her only opposition is the only child, now grown up, who has survived her before.
While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.
Hardened criminal Maggie Hayward's consistent violence, even in police custody, ends in the execution chamber. However, top-secret US government agent 'Bob' arranges a staged death, so Maggie can be elaborately trained as a phantom killer and subdued into obedience.
Lewis, Sheriff and Tony are three friends vacationing in Malaysia. Sheriff and Tony eventually leave to pursue careers in New York, but Lewis stays behind to work with orangutans. Two years later, Sheriff and Tony learn that, because of their past actions, Lewis has been arrested for drug possession. With Lewis facing a death sentence, the friends are left with a difficult decision: return to Malaysia and split Lewis' sentence, or let him die.
After Ben Garvey foolishly turned back to crime, he thought his life was over when he was sentenced to death by lethal injection. But his death sentence isn't quite what it seems, as Ben regains consciousness near an eerie psychiatric ward, where he's told he's been hired as the groundskeeper. With the state of his soul in question, and the love for his wife and daughter all the more real and powerful, Ben must figure out if he's truly cheated death, or if he's become part of something far more sinister.
The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teacher Anna Leonowens during the 1860s. Anna teaches the children and becomes romanced by the King. She convinces him that a man can be loved by just one woman.
A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.