The enchanted place is an ancient stone prison, viewed through the eyes of a death row inmate who finds escape in his books and in re-imagining life around him. A female investigator searches for buried information from prisoners' pasts that can save those soon-to-be-executed. Digging into the background of a killer named York, she uncovers wrenching truths that challenge familiar notions of victim and criminal, innocence and guilt, and reveals shocking...

Learning that a man on death row who is days away from being executed may be innocent, Jack Swyteck races against time to discover the truth about the victim, the accused, and the victim's parents.

Falling in love with a man on death row she believes was falsely accused, a young schoolteacher successfully campaigns for the man's release and becomes his wife, only to begin to wonder about his possible guilt in the aftermath of his release.

As she prepares to execute another inmate, warden Bernadine must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job creates, ultimately connecting her to the man she is sanctioned to kill.

A world-renowned civil rights defense attorney works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.

Traces the fall of a young black man in 1930s Chicago as his life loses all hope of redemption after he kills a white woman.

Retired Memphis detective Buck Schatz must confront a new challenge in NPR producer Carlos Watkins, who claims that Buck coerced a confession out of a man slated for execution.