Although it's rare for women to kill other women for their unborn babies, when it happens, the motive is usually beyond wanting a child.
In 1971, Edgar Smith Jr. became a free man after spending more than 14 years on death row for the 1957 murder of 15-year-old Victoria Zielinski. In 1976, he was sent back to prison for attempted murder, where he remained until he died at age 83.
A&E True Crime investigates attempts made by death-row inmates to donate their organs posthumously.
In January 1977, Gary Gilmore gained international attention for his choice to die by firing squad after being sentenced to death for the murder of two young Mormon men.
In 1999, Cary Stayner, brother of high-profile abduction victim, Steven Stayner, murdered four females at Yosemite National Park. Where is he today?
Last words are part of a long practice in the United States, allowing the condemned a final opportunity to express themselves or ask for forgiveness.
The Night Stalker, sentenced to death in 1989 for 13 murders, escaped execution when he died of natural causes in 2013.
Read about the death of the businessman and children's entertainer, who liked to dress as 'Pogo the Clown' and was convicted in March 1980 of murdering 33 boys and young men, making him the worst serial killer in American history at the time.
Lisa Montgomery spent years on death row after committing a horrific crime. While there, she began to recover from a lifetime of nightmarish abuse. In January 2021 she was the first woman executed by the U.S. government in 67 years.
While her husband and daughters were out of state, Dr. Teresa Sievers was murdered. 'This was almost the perfect crime,' says prosecutor Cynthia Ross. 'There was absolutely no trace evidence.'
