Films and TV shows that feel like The Mercy Seat by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

A condemned man's feverish monologue on death row, circling guilt, faith and defiance as the electric chair draws closer, with his innocence left deliberately ambiguous.

1. Dead Man Walking (1995): A death row prisoner, a spiritual adviser and the slow walk to execution, with guilt and grace at its core.
2. The Green Mile (1999): Death row guards, the electric chair and questions of innocence and divine judgment.
3. The Shawshank Redemption (1994): Prison endurance, guilt and the long fight for a kind of salvation.
4. The Proposition (2005): Written by Nick Cave: brutal Outback morality, violence and doomed brotherhood, with a Cave and Warren Ellis score.
5. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007): Scored by Cave and Ellis, a hypnotic study of guilt, obsession and doom.
6. Monster (2003): A woman facing execution, as the film traces how she got there.
7. Making a Murderer (2015): A documentary about the justice system and the doubt over guilt and innocence.
8. Clemency (2019): A death row warden unravelling as an execution approaches, in a quiet, claustrophobic drama.