
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.

After meeting on an online dating site, Alicia Williamson moved in with Robert Atkins Jr and killed him nine days later.

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