
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.

A woman is charged with starting a fire which ends up killing the two sleeping children of her lesbian lover.

Sisters face conviction for attempted spousal murder despite claims of innocence and hired killer confesses; In separate case, teenage mother and friends kidnap and kill romantic rival.

Delpha Spunaugle is serving a life sentence for the capital murder of her husband Dennis; Carmen Ortiz is serving 25 years for felony murder.

Denise Holsinger is convicted in the fatal shooting of four people at the Witchduck Inn; Vanessa Crawley is charged with murder.