Here it is:
http://archive.org/details/Lady_in_the_Death_House_1944

It was more enjoyable the second time I watched it. Byron Foulger had a small role (playing a character of his usual type).

Bad sister. Good movie. Had me wondering down to the last few minutes. The sister (and maybe one of the reporters) played in "Lady Behave" also on Archive.

“Lady in the Death House,” made at PRC in 1944, has long a particular favorite of mine for the excellence of the execution and the sheer audacity of the concept: a woman is tried, convicted and sentenced to death for a murder she didn’t commit, and the man who’s supposed to pull the switch on the electric chair in his capacity as the state executioner is her boyfriend — or, to be more exact, her ex-boyfriend, since though he was still in love with her, she refused to continue their relationship because of her horror at the way he made his living. “Lady in the Death House” was directed by Steve Sekely (a Hungarian-born director who originally spelled his last name “Szekely” but got rid of the “z” when he came to the U.S.), who’d shown his excellent camera eye in Monogram’s “Revenge of the Zombies” the year before but whose efforts had been sabotaged by a silly script.

This time around he got a script worthy of him — written by Harry O. Hoyt (director of the 1925 blockbuster “The Lost World,” the first feature-length dinosaur movie, but his career never recovered from the cancellation of his follow-up, the unfinished 1930 film “Creation”) from a story called “Meet the Executioner” by Frederick C. Davis, a pulp mystery writer whose work would seem to merit re-examination based on this film. He also got an interesting cast; the heroine, Jean Parker, was already on her way down (though she gave the performance of her career in this film), but some of his supporting players, including Douglas Fowley (generally typecast as a gangster, though his most famous credit is as the director in “Singin’ in the Rain”) as her executioner boyfriend and Lionel Atwill (billed second) in one of his rare good-guy roles as a psychologist/criminologist who unravels the mystery and proves the Parker character innocent barely in time to save her from execution.

“Lady in the Death House” ranks at the very top of PRC’s output, well acted from top to bottom (though I found Marcia Mae Jones’ character, pitched in between noir second-lead and comic relief, a bit hard to take and I couldn’t help but wish PRC could have got the superb Martha Vickers, who played a similar role in a big-budget “A”-list film, “The Big Sleep,” two years later), well constructed and well directed, ranking at the top of this little studio’s output along with Edgar G. Ulmer’s “Bluebeard,” “Strange Illusion” and “Detour” and Frank Wisbar’s “Strangler of the Swamp.” (Hmmm, probably the five best movies PRC ever made and all were shot by foreign-born directors.) One imdb.com reviewer said he couldn’t believe a state governor would be out of reach of a phone on the night of an execution — but I didn’t have a problem with that because it’s believable that he thought the case against Mary Kirk so cut-and-dried there was no way he was going to grant last-minute clemency.

“Lady in the Death House” is also at least something of a “message” movie against capital punishment — though the message is expressed subtly instead of pounded in — but then the whole notion of capital punishment (which the late comedian Lenny Bruce once defined as “killing people who killed people to prove that killing people is wrong”) is so barbaric and morally offensive that any honest depiction of it, like any honest depiction of war, can’t help but make a political statement against it. And it’s clear from PRC’s tagline advertising the film — “Even now I can hear preparations for my own execution,” taken from the opening of Mary’s letter, which she wrote in what she thought would be the last minutes of her life — that they knew what they had in it and sold it effectively instead of dumping it on the market with all their other sludge.

This one is really good. It was very clever and suspenseful as previous reviewer stated.

It had me wondering up until the last minute what was going to happen. Was is it really the sister, was he going to die, was she, where is the Governor... eating Denver Sandwiches smothered in onions...

I really liked the criminologist/psychologist character, and Marcia Mae Jones is great as always.

Highly recommended viewing.

I'm not a serious film critic, but I do enjoy an "oldies" film, especially one where suspense builds. This movie started out a bit confusing---but once I figured out who did what, and that there were constant flash-backs on the part of the investigator, it became fun and understandable. This could be watched with older children as a family---an old-fashioned movie with some popcorn, for sure.

I liked it well enough to download the full mpeg2 version so I could put it on a DVD to share with others.

Well I watched it and tried real hard to like it.
It stinks.

Lady in the Death House I¡¯m sure is a movie publicist¡¯s wet dream. Get this: A woman is condemned to die.. The executioner? Her BOYFRIEND! It¡¯s up to a criminologist, er, psychologist to figure out who really killed the shady friend of the prisoner¡¯s sister, AND has to get a hold of the Governor somehow Before It¡¯s Too Late!
This movie is somewhat fun, but fairly predictable, Jean Parker as the lady in question and Lionel Atwill are good here, but nothing really remarkable. The most fun is watching the little bit of suspense at the end with the governor and all. I mean, shouldn¡¯t he be AVAILIBLE for last minute clemency phone calls and what have you instead of ordering Denver Sandwiches (¡°smothered in onions!¡±). They should have had a shot of the onions frying, THAT would have been clever.