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I vaguely remember this fantasy-esque miniseries (or was it a made for TV movie?) that featured a society where some of the worst criminals were punished with immortality along with imprisonment as a form of ultimate punishment. Basically, if I recall correctly, being immortal was seen as a curse and once you were immortal you could be kept imprisoned by other immortals for millennium or longer.

Offenders were made immortal by being strapped to a chair with their mouth forced open and some kind of lizard-like humanoid would spit/excrete some kind of mucusy substance into their mouth, kind of gross. I only saw a few parts of the show so I could be misremembering or misunderstanding any or all of it. But I do distinctly remember immortality being administered as a punishment to at least one character.

I think this miniseries or TV movie was made some time in the 90s, but it could be late 80s for all I know.

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  • Ah, yeah, I did some searching but didn't see it. "Help identifying unknown fantasy movie/show where prisoners are punished with immortality?" is probably a closer dup. But I guess we funnel everything through whatever isn't closed, seems a little strange.
    – Mark Rogers
    Commented Sep 12, 2018 at 14:01
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    It's already considered a duplicate of the other. I tend to point all of them to the same one, so there's a base answer. Not sure if that's the accepted procedure or not.
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This is most likely White Dwarf (1995).

From this summary (emphasis mine):

Elsewhere in this fantastical world dwells a fantastic, mythical character with tusks and horns -- a creature named Osh. Osh is the warden of the Dark Sider King's prison, The Keep. His prime charge is Lady X, a beautiful "young" woman more than 500 years old who was convicted of having created a plague on Earth that killed billions -- though she pleads she is innocent. She is kept alive by Osh's ability to secrete a hormone that affords an entirely undesired immortality. The only problem is that this big, lumbering beast is also in love with her.

It's a memorable movie and has been asked about a couple times. Related questions that might have more details that could match:

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Help identifying unknown fantasy movie/show where prisoners are punished with immortality?

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