
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.

Shreves was convicted of the 1986 murder of Tony Martinez, her son-in-law; Latham pled guilty to kidnapping a baby from a maternity ward.

Deborah Rolle is sentenced to life in prison for the murder of her estranged husband; Gena Shaughnessy is found guilty of first-degree murder.

The 1993 murder of 19-year-old Dennis Brooks, Jr; a husband shot to death in 2007 due to an argument.

Natasha and her friends are charged with murder after trying to carjack a family's van; LaSonya stabs her boyfriend in their Florida apartment.