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.

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.

When petty criminal John Thompson is convicted on capital murder charges, two successful Philadelphia lawyers agree to represent him, but soon discover that their legal rules don't necessarily apply in New Orleans.

Evidence emerges causing many to question the guilt of Army sergeant Tim Hennis who is sentenced to death for the murder of the wife and two children of an Air Force captain; a bizarre and unprecedented journey through the American justice system. First, jurors ruled him guilty. Then he was declared innocent. Later, another court's verdict was guilty. The remarkable story of Timothy Hennis and the stabbing deaths of a mother and two small girls is full of shocking legal twists and turns. Experts call it a one-of-kind murder mystery that has yet to be fully solved.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Joyce Ride, the mother of Sally Ride, America's first female astronaut, becomes intrigued by the case of former Sacramento law school student, Gloria Killian who has no prior criminal record and was found guilty of a brutal home invasion and murder.

No one listened to 27-year old Army vet Joe D'Ambrosio's pleas of innocence in the 1988 murder of Tony Klann, until Father Neil Kookoothe began investigating and discovered a shocking cover-up.

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

The case of Nathan Dunlop, who was sentenced to death for the 1993 murders of four people at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant in Aurora, Colo.

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.

Detective Marshall Frank attempts to exonerate his fellow cop James Duckett, who is sentenced to death for the rape and murder of an eleven year-old girl.

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.

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

In 1987, Kris Maharaj receives the death sentence for a double homicide, but attorney Clive Stafford Smith uncovers powerful evidence that supports an alternative, opening a virtual Pandora's box of the city's lucrative illegal operations.

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.

A Texas mother is sentenced to death after being convicted of murdering her two young sons in their Dallas-area home.

In 1986, a fire engulfed the home of newlyweds in Paris, IL, with them inside, but the fire was intended as a cover-up: The couple had been stabbed to death before the arson. Flawed evidence. Conflicting accounts. Leads that were never followed. Recantations. How does a double homicide case become too politically sensitive? And how did an innocent man end up on death row for almost 20 years?

An investigation into the brutal murders of a California family in their home in Chino Hills, CA. A getaway car. A hatchet. A bloodstained shirt. Did Kevin Cooper kill the Ryen family -- or was he framed?

The execution-style killings of a Florida nightclub owner and two aspiring models are caught on camera. All three found dead, side by side, killed execution style. The crime was caught on videotape, but was the wrong man sent to death row?

Two construction workers are brutally attacked in San Antonio. One survives and is able to identify his assailant. Ruben Cantu was a 17 year old from Texas who was executed after being convicted of the brutal murder - a conviction based on a questionable evidence. Did they execute the right man?

Throughout the history of capital punishment in America, states have reviewed and revised execution methods in the interest of finding a more "humane" option. Ohio, Arizona and Oklahoma are among the states where lethal injection executions have gone horribly wrong. What's life like for those executioners who are paid to end the lives of others...especially when it doesn't go according to plan?