Bi ha una ampla filmografía sobre ista tematica, su puet destacar as cintas Compulsion (1959), I want to live! (1958), The executioner's song (1982), Too young to die? (1990), Murder in the first (1995), The chamber (1996), Last dance (1996), The Green Mile (1999) basata en una novela d'Stephen King, True crime (1999), Dancer in the dark (2000), Return to sender (2004) y Salvador (2006).