
Female prisoners are a lot like honest politicians: they exist but you never really hear about them. This series brings women who kill to the forefront, detailing a specific case in each episode, and then trying to answer the question of why they did what they did.

Roena Ashing is sentenced to 40 years in prison for enlisting a group of friends to murder a mentally disabled man; Connie Keel is convicted of armed robbery and murder and sentenced to 25 years to life without parole.

Jealousy and addiction drove Emilia and Patricia to commit the bloody and violent murders that landed them on Death Row.

In 1986, Rose Parker is convicted of the murder of Art Boga; Celeste Fox is charged with the first-degree murder of her grandmother and sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Holly's dad took advantage of her when she was 15; Renay still claims she's innocent after being sentenced to 25 years in prison.