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.

Higinio Gonzalez killed a store clerk during an armed robbery at the age of 16. He swears it was an accident, but one county attorney isn't so sure.

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.

Convicted for killing his grandmother, Rex Groves insists he no longer holds murderous thoughts towards his family. But their trust isn't easily won.

Sentenced for a triple murder linked by police to Satanism, Miguel Angel Martinez becomes the youngest person ever on death row in Texas.

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.

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.

After years in solitary confinement, James Robertson admits to murdering his new cellmate as an escape to the better conditions on death row.

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.

After an unsuccessful attempt to kill his father, drug user Charles "Billy" Armentrout later murdered his grandmother and was sent to prison for life.

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.

Young love takes a dark turn when Ashley Morrison's plan to run away with her boyfriend, Christian Sims, results in the murder of his grandmother.

Raised in an environment of drug addiction and crime, teenager Justin Dickens commits murder but disputes the prosecutor's version of events.

Sentenced to life without parole for Jason Johnson's horrific murder, Gary Black says he has no regrets, while Jason's family finds purpose in tragedy.

As Daniel maintains his innocence, more details about Jose Menchaca's murder come to light, shifting the focus to Candie's troubled past and cartel ties.

Leroy Schmitz claims he didn't mean to kill his wife during a drunken argument, pleading that an abusive childhood predisposed him to violence.

Sentenced to a minimum of 109 years behind bars, Kevin Saxon considers the choices that led him to commit murder — both in and outside of prison.

After shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new lover, Charles Thompson is charged with manslaughter -- until his ex dies due to a hospital error.

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.

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.

Makueeyapee Whitford claims the murder he committed was an act of self-defense against a rival tribe, but eyewitness testimonies tell a different story.

No one -- including David Lewis himself -- disputes that he committed murder. But Lewis's mental fitness remains in doubt despite his death sentence.

Accept a plea deal or go to trial? Three men receive radically different prison sentences for their roles in the fatal shooting of a cab driver.

David Cameron Keith recalls the day he took a young hostage before heading to an airport and killing the pilot who volunteered to take the child's place.

A botched drug deal is only the beginning when Candie Dominguez assists her boyfriend, Daniel Lopez, in his gruesome killing of her cousin.