Plot

Manling "Ling" Williams smothered her two boys to death and brutally murdered her husband with a Katana sword so that she could start a new life with another man.

Manling Tsang Williams enjoys her freedom, finding life as a wife and mother too confining, but does not want the financial strain of divorce. Despondent after her extramarital affair ends, she turns to murder, smothering her two young sons with a pillow and slashing her husband, Neal 97 times with his prized Japanese sword. She is sentenced to death. In mid-20th century Alabama, Rhonda Belle Martin takes the lives of two husbands, three children, and her mother, and leaves a surviving husband paralyzed, via arsenic poisoning. Her motive is that she is addicted to killing and enjoys the thrill. She is sentenced to death and was executed by the electric chair in 1957. Feeling lonely while her husband, Jim, works nights, Marilyn Plantz seeks solace in the arms of a lover more than half her age. At her urging, her boyfriend and his friend murder her husband by beating him to death and then burning his body to make it look like an accident, so that Marilyn can collect his life insurance. She is sentenced to death and was executed in 2001 by lethal injection.