Seasons & episodes
S1 · E1Means to an End 2018-05-29 · 51 min
After years in solitary confinement, James Robertson admits to murdering his new cellmate as an escape to the better conditions on death row.
S1 · E2Killer in the Eyes of the Law 2018-06-05 · 53 min
Kenneth Foster's death sentence is commuted just hours before his execution, but he asserts that his punishment under an unusual Texas law is unfair.
S1 · E3The Mockingbird 2018-06-12 · 53 min
Raised in an environment of drug addiction and crime, teenager Justin Dickens commits murder but disputes the prosecutor's version of events.
S1 · E4Sympathy for the Devil 2018-06-19 · 53 min
Sentenced for a triple murder linked by police to Satanism, Miguel Angel Martinez becomes the youngest person ever on death row in Texas.
S1 · E5Intended Evil 2018-06-26 · 51 min
After shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new lover, Charles Thompson is charged with manslaughter -- until his ex dies due to a hospital error.
S1 · E6Declared Competent 2018-07-03 · 52 min
No one -- including David Lewis himself -- disputes that he committed murder. But Lewis's mental fitness remains in doubt despite his death sentence.
S1 · E7Family Affair 2018-07-10 · 52 min
High on a drug that fuels his paranoia, Deandra Buchanan fatally shoots his aunt, stepfather and girlfriend -- a crime he claims he can't recall.
S1 · E8Hunted 2018-07-17 · 51 min
Robert Shafer and a friend target a same-sex couple in a robbery, but their crime spins out of control into kidnapping and double murder.
S1 · E9Living with the Consequences 2018-07-24 · 51 min
Teenage drug abuser Joshua Nelson murders a friend in cold blood to steal his car, but other shocking motivations for the crime emerge at his trial.
S1 · E10A Matter of Life and Death 2018-07-31 · 51 min
Convicted murderer Wayne Doty admits his guilt but requests that his execution be carried out by electric chair, a method no longer used in Florida.
S2 · E1In Her Hands 2019-10-22 · 47 min
One of the small number of women who commit murder, Lindsay Haugen claims that she strangled her depressed boyfriend in 2015 as an act of mercy.
S2 · E2An Ordinary Boy 2019-10-29 · 47 min
Remorseful about the crime that sent him to prison for life, Leo Little tells the story of the murder he committed in 1998. He is now a minister.
S2 · E3Pyro Joe 2019-11-05 · 47 min
After 24 years on death row, Joseph Murphy saw his sentence commuted a week before his execution due to the extreme abuse he suffered as a child.
S2 · E4Trapped 2019-11-12 · 47 min
From a women's reformatory in Ohio, Linda Lee Couch talks about the murder of her husband, Walter, in 1984, a killing precipitated by years of abuse.
S2 · E5Overkill 2019-11-19 · 47 min
In 1996, David Barnett murdered his adoptive grandparents, stabbing them over 20 times. Later, he revealed years of abuse at the hands of his father.
S2 · E6Crossing the Line 2019-11-26 · 47 min
Kansas native Cavona Flenoy agreed to a date with a liquor store clerk, but the evening took a deadly turn when he tried to assault her.
S2 · E7Owning It 2019-12-03 · 47 min
After an unsuccessful attempt to kill his father, drug user Charles "Billy" Armentrout later murdered his grandmother and was sent to prison for life.
S2 · E8A Silent Order 2019-12-10 · 47 min
At a New Year's Eve party in 1996, Brandon Hutchison killed two brothers, a crime he admits — but there are conflicting versions of the story.
S2 · E9Something Hideous 2019-12-17 · 47 min
Toby Williams murdered Deborah Moore and shot her husband, John, in a cruel 1984 robbery for which he has been on death row for nearly 35 years.
S2 · E10Honorable Intentions 2019-12-24 · 47 min
Mark Arthur maintains that he murdered a friend's father on a Houston highway for savagely beating his wife. But police have a different theory.
S3 · E1A Question of Loyalty 2022-08-30 · 44 min
Subjected to abuse throughout her life, Victoria Smith confessed to killing her husband. But someone close to the case has doubts about her admission.
S3 · E2Someone Else 2022-08-30 · 43 min
On death row for murder, Deryl Madison reflects on his struggles with mental illness and finds support from an anti-capital punishment advocate.
S3 · E3History Repeating 2022-08-30 · 46 min
Daniel Paulsrud says his fatal shooting of partner Leslie was an accident. But accounts from her family — and his handwritten notes — raise doubts.
S3 · E4Blackout 2022-08-30 · 45 min
James Walker claims he has no recollection of the 2001 murder he confessed to committing. An investigation into his traumatic past offers more context.