Women on Death Row 3 is the third in a series of two-hour specials produced by Burrud Productions which tells the dramatic stories of three women, each of whom have committed a murder, confessed their crime and are currently serving death sentences.
The special originally aired in the USA on WE tv on Sunday 2 March, 2008. It is 110 minutes long.
It originally aired in South Africa on DStv's Crime & Investigation Network (C&I) on Saturday 27 September 2008, at 20h30.
Women on Death Row 3 premiered on DStv's Zone Reality channel on Saturday 18 October 2008, at 23h00.
Synopsis
Women on Death Row 3 looks into the personal lives of three women currently awaiting execution on Death Row, including up-close looks into the joys, sorrows and demons that put them there.
Although each woman was convicted of committing society’s ultimate crime - murder - there is often another side of the story — the societal and human contradictions between the feminine, maternal and, in most cases, loving aspects of womanhood; and the horrible, rage-filled murders these women committed.
With interviews with the women, direct from location in prison, we discover what life is like on death row and what it’s like to face execution.
We explore the years leading up to the crime, the events of the crime - were they really guilty and if so, why did they do it? - and what’s happened to them since their conviction.