
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.

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.

Cantu was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the fatal stabbing of her lover; Hendricks found not guilty by reason of insanity.

A financially strapped Deborah Pierenger is jailed for the murder of her parents.

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