page_title: On Death Row
section_title: Production and release
hierarchical_section_title: On Death Row / Production and release
caption_attribution_description: English: Allan B. Polunsky Unit Español: Unidad Allan B. Polunsky
context_page_description: On Death Row is a television mini-series written and directed by Werner Herzog about capital punishment in the United States. The series grew out of the same project which produced Herzog's documentary film Into the Abyss. The series first aired in the United Kingdom on March 22, 2012, on Channel 4.
  Each episode of the series focuses on a specific murder case and those convicted of the crimes, each of whom was on death row during filming. The cases profiled are:
  James Barnes, convicted of two murders
  Joseph Garcia and George Rivas, members of the Texas Seven. Rivas, the leader of the Texas Seven, was executed on February 29, 2012, aged 41. Garcia was executed on December 4, 2018.
  Hank Skinner, convicted of murdering a woman and her two sons
  Linda Carty, convicted of murdering a woman and stealing her four-day-old child
  Robert Fratta, convicted for hiring two men to murder his wife
  Darlie Routier, convicted of murdering her five-year-old son, Damon. Two of her sons, Damon and 6-year-old Devon, were killed in the attack, but she was only tried for the murder of Damon
  Blaine Milam, convicted of killing of his girlfriend's 13-month-old daughter
context_section_description: One of the originally planned episodes of the series was expanded to feature length and released theatrically as Into the Abyss in November 2011. Both the film and the series used the same production crew.
  Herzog's visits with the inmates were very constrained, and he was typically granted only two hours for filming with each inmate. In an introduction to the broadcast of the first episode, it was stated that Herzog only was allowed two sessions of one hour each with his first subject, James Barnes.
  The series showed at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale Special) on February 29, 2012, a month before its television premiere.
  When the series aired on Investigation Discovery brief introductions by Paula Zahn were inserted after each commercial break. These "bumpers" were poorly received in reviews.
caption: Three of the series' episodes filmed interviews at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit, which houses Texas' death row inmates.
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