"The death penalty exists in 34 states of the USA. Currently only 16 states actually perform executions. Executions are carried out by lethal injection. As a German, coming from a different historical background and being a guest in the United States, I respectfully disagree with the practice of capital punishment". That is how filmmaker Werner Herzog opens every episode of Death Row. Different from most people, death row inmates know exactly when and how they will die. They are told the exact day, hour and minute, including all the precise procedures and rituals of their execution. Death Row is a documentary series that tells fascinating and controversial stories of crime and the death penalty. The first season premiered in 2012. Now, Herzog returns with four more installments, taking place in Texas, the U.S. state with a higher rate of executions. This is not so much a series about capital punishment as a deep and intriguing insight into the limits of human experience, proposing the question “what it feels like to know how and when you will die?”. Locarno Film Festival 2013.

Robert Fratta hired two hitmen to kill his wife who was about to divorce him. Both his fellow death-row inmates and the prison guards describe him as the most frightening person they have ever met. Locarno Film Festival 2013.

It will be shown with the episode “Blaine Milam”.