George Rivas, a smart, savvy con was doing time for a string of armed robberies. He organised a band of seven prisoners to pull off the most dramatic and successful prison break in Texas history.

The Texas Seven got away after killing a police officer. They fled to Colorado, where they were finally surrounded and caught.

In a dramatic televised trial, Rivas asked for and was given a sentence of death. He told the jury, "What you call death, I call freedom".