
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.

Jessica Gentry is sentenced to a life in prison because she didn't help save her adoptive grandmother's life; after refusing a plea bargain, Shannon Buard was convicted of first-degree murder.

Alicia Williamson is charged with the murder of her roommate of nine days; Patricia Donnelly pleads guilty to first-degree murder and sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Former law enforcement officer, Courtenay Savage, pled guilty to second-degree attempted murder; Lorri Worley stabs son-in-law to death.