- The Execution traces the life crimes, and execution of self-confessed death row murderer Clifford Boggess. Filmed over three years that led up to Boggess's Texas execution in 1998, the program is both an examination of capital punishment and the death penalty in the U.S. and a journey into the mind and soul of a death row killer. Some called him a psychopath; others believed he became a ...www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/execution