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#1 - Episode 3
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 4/26/2016
Josh gives detectives what they've been waiting for - a breakthrough in the case. Detective Buie wants to find out more about the relationship between Emilia, Josh and Heather. He tries to play Emilia and Josh against each other when Josh suggests that Emilia might know more about Heather’s disappearance. After a few hours, Emilia is sent home whilst Josh is arrested for fraudulently using Heather's credit cards.n Josh offers detectives new information which may prove to be a breakthrough in the case.
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#2 - Episode 4
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 4/26/2016
Detectives discover the location of Heather's body and find that she has been murdered. But they are still no closer to catching her killer. Knowing from the police that Josh is implicating her, Emilia’s loyalty to Josh falters.
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- 8.1/1032 votesLoading...
#3 - Judgement
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/24/2014
The second film follows the trial of 26-year-old Guy Heinze Jr, with remarkable access to the jury members charged with reaching a verdict on allegations that Heinze beat his father and seven members of his family to death. As the trial progresses, there is legal manoeuvring while evidence about the brutal killings unfolds.
Director: John Douglas
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1036 votesLoading...
#4 - Execution
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/17/2014
For two of the youngest men on death row in Texas, execution day has arrived. Victim Nikki Daniels reflects on her kidnapping ordeal by murderer Richard Cobb and battles with her conflicting desires to forgive him, while the mother of death row inmate Anthony Haynes fights to use the final 72 hours to halt her son's execution for the murder of a police officer.
Director: Ben Anthony
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1023 votesLoading...
#5 - Episode 1
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 4/25/2016
Nobody has seen Heather Strong, a beautiful wife and mother, for over a month. Concerned for her whereabouts, detectives bring in her estranged husband Joshua Fulgham for questioning. During his initial interview, police discover Josh had a pregnant lover, Emilia Carr. Growing more suspicious, detectives want to interview Emilia to find out what she knows about the disappearance of Heather.
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#6 - Punishment
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 2/23/2016
In April 2013, 18-year old Shawn Ford Jr was charged with killing his girlfriend's parents with a sledgehammer. Now he is on trial for his life and a jury of twelve ordinary people must decide whether he should live or die. This film follows the court case from the inside, as both the family of the victims and the defendant struggle to come to terms with such a horrific crime. But it is the jurors who must ultimately decide Shawn's fate. As the details of the shocking murders mount, can an impassioned plea for mercy from Shawn's mother save her son's life?
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- 7.7/1020 votesLoading...
#7 - Episode 2
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 4/25/2016
Heather is still missing, but the explanation about her leaving the State of Florida with a suitcase doesn’t add up when police find somebody else has been using her credit card a few miles from where she disappeared. Detectives also learn about Josh’s violent history. Whilst they turn up the heat on Josh, detectives are still questioning his pregnant lover, Emilia.
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#8 - Crisis Stage
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/31/2014
The final film of the series follows 25-year-old legal student Kelly Hickman as she attempts to save two of the young killers facing execution in America.
Director: Graeme McAulay
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1028 votesLoading...
#9 - Truth
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 3/1/2016
In January 2014, in small town America, 18 year old Justin Back is brutally murdered in his own home. Two friends - Austin Myers and Tim Mosley, both 19, are arrested and charged with his murder. Both give very different stories. Who is telling the truth? What will they individually do to save themselves from the ultimate punishment - the death penalty? With access to the filmed confessions of both boys, this film shines a disturbing light on the American criminal justice system.
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- 7.4/1029 votesLoading...
#10 - Execution
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 2/16/2016
On March 11 2009, Daniel Lopez was pulled over for driving erratically. The dramatic car chase that ensued killed a police officer and 27-year-old Daniel was given the death penalty. Unusually for a death row prisoner, he is resisting all appeals to block his execution - which is due in five weeks time. The state-appointed attorneys for Lopez are arguing that their client is using the justice system as a form of suicide. His family are also pleading with him to fight the execution and stay alive for them. With access to Daniel, his lawyers, his parents and the widow of the police officer that Daniel killed, this film follows the lead up to 'execution day'. Will Daniel go to his death, as he insists he wants to do, or will the people who love him be able to save him?
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#11 - Forgiveness
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 6/14/2016
T.T. Trottie is preparing himself to lose another parent. His father killed his mother 21 years ago and will be executed a week from now.
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#12 - Episode 5
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 4/27/2016
Emilia and Josh are telling very different stories. Who is telling the truth? Emilia tells detectives about a dramatic discovery that point towards Josh being Heather’s killer. But why didn’t she come forward before? Who is telling the truth? To complicate matters further, Josh brings two new suspects into the frame, and what they say sheds an entirely different light on the case.
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#13 - Episode 6
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 4/27/2016
The two new suspects, Jamie and Jason, cast suspicion on Emilia’s story about being friends with Heather. But Emilia reveals they have personal grievances against her, and that the love triangle is in fact a 'love square'. Emilia’s children are taken away and she calls Spivey to ask about immunity.
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#14 - Episode 7
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 4/28/2016
Josh has been in jail for fraudulently using Heather’s credit cards, and Heather is all he can think about. He sends a message to Buie from his prison cell, requesting that they speak again about Heather’s murder.
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#15 - Episode 8
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 4/28/2016
Police believe that Emilia is involved in Heather’s death, but they have no proof. When Josh’s sister Michelle contacts them saying she wants to help, they set in motion a plan to find out what Emilia will tell Michelle about Josh, or about Heather’s murder. They plant a bug in Michelle’s car and secretly record to their conversation.
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#16 - Episode 1
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 2/18/2018
In this episode we meet death row inmate Stacey Johnson, who is scheduled to be executed for a crime that he claims he didn't commit. With just weeks to go, his wife Judy and stepdaughter Tasha are doing all they can to stop the execution from going ahead. We also meet Susan, whose mother was murdered in a home invasion by inmate Don Davis in 1990. Susan has been waiting for Davis's execution for decades and wants justice to finally be carried out so she and her family can find peace.
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#17 - Episode 2
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 2/25/2018
In this episode, inmate Stacey Johnson and his family are attempting to get his execution stayed on the basis that DNA testing could prove his innocence. However, the daughter of Johnson's victim, who witnessed the murder, is fighting for the execution to go ahead so she can finally put her mother's death behind her.
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#18 - Episode 3
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 4/4/2018
In this episode we meet Lynn Scott, the sister of death row inmate Jack Jones - the next prisoner in line to die. Jones has severe medical problems including diabetes, which led to him having a leg amputated in prison. We also meet inmate Marcel Williams who is on death row for the rape and murder of 22-year-old Stacy Rae Errickson. With only weeks to go before Williams's execution, his attorney Jason Kearney is fighting to save his client's life, arguing that Williams's original lawyers made serious mistakes during his trial.
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The Best Episodes of 生死牢房
Every episode of 生死牢房 ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of 生死牢房!
The story of capital punishment through the eyes of young people whose lives have been shaped by it.
Genre:Documentary
Network:BBC Three
Best Episodes Summary
"Episode 3" is the best rated episode of "生死牢房". It scored 8.5/10 based on 17 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 4/26/2016. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Episode 4".