
Women on Death Row
Fifty-four women currently sit on death row in the United States, and this film follows several of their cases through the legal system's slow grind toward execution or exoneration. In Texas, Linda Carty maintains her innocence in the kidnapping and killing of a neighbor to abduct her baby, while Melissa Lucio was convicted of fatally mistreating her two-year-old daughter, a case built on a confession her lawyers say was coerced. In Arizona, Shawna Forde, leader of an anti-immigration militia, was convicted alongside her accomplices of murdering a father and his young daughter during a botched home invasion. The film moves between prison interviews, courtroom records, and the accounts of lawyers and family members trying to reopen these cases, tracing what the crew calls the green line, the path from sentencing to the execution chamber. It sits with the uncertainty of appeals still pending, showing how little separates a reversed conviction from a completed sentence, and how differently each woman's story might still end.