Three-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alex go missing one night on the desolate roads of rural South Carolina. Their mother, Susan Smith, pleads for help claiming her children were snatched by an African-American carjacker. Yet after a frantic search, police discover that the story was made up.

South Carolina had never put a woman to death so the burden was on prosecutor Tommy Pope to prove the young mother had no remorse when she rolled her car with her two boys into John D. Long Lake strapped in their car seats. Find out the shocking conclusion of whether Susan Smith lives or dies.