Death Penalty 8 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes
Capital cases, where prosecutors weigh seeking execution and defendants fight for their lives.
- Season 2 · Episode 15
Countdown
When an eight-year-old escapes a predator who holds girls for three days before killing them, the squad races the clock to find him before his newest captive’s time runs out.
- Season 2 · Episode 21
Scourge
A man who believes he is doing God’s work kills four people in a day, and the push to execute him stalls when doctors find a disease his insurer knew about.
- Season 3 · Episode 15
Execution
With a serial killer days from execution, Stabler races to prove he also murdered a schoolgirl whose case went cold a decade earlier.
- Season 4 · Episode 1
Chameleon
A sex worker who kills a paroled rapist in apparent self-defense is linked through his gun to a series of men robbed and murdered across New York and New Jersey.
- Season 4 · Episode 11
Damaged
A little girl wounded in an apparent robbery turns out to have been raped, and the hero clerk and her troubled adoptive sister become the focus of the case.
- Season 6 · Episode 13
Quarry
The remains of a boy missing since 1980 point to a death-row child molester, but the truth lies with a boy he abused.
- Season 9 · Episode 7
Blinded
A schizophrenic children’s author who abducts girls he mistakes for his sister blinds Stabler, and Benson and Novak each bend the rules over whether he should face execution.
- Season 14 · Episode 13
Monster's Legacy
An attack on a gymnastics coach leads SVU to a camp director who abused boys for decades, and to one of his victims awaiting execution in Ohio.