Mary Beth Tinning in 1987. She received a 20 years to life sentence for smothering her infant daughter with a pillow. (AP)
Susan Eubanks, the admitted killer of her four sons, was sentenced to the death penalty. (AP Photo/Scott Varley)
Megan Huntsman was sentenced up to life in prison in the killings of six of her babies that she stored in her garage in Pleasant Grove, Utah (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Deanna LaJune Laneywas acquittedy reason of insanity in the bludgeoning deaths of two of her sons and of severely injuring her youngest son. (AP Photo/Tyler Morning Telegraph, D.J. Peters/Pool)
Debra Jenner-Tyler was convicted of second-degree murder in the 1987 slaying of her 3-year-old daughter. (AP Photo/Joe Kafka)
Frances Newton, of Houston, was executed in 2005 the slayings of her husband and two small children. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Andrea Yates drowned her five children in a bathtub at her Clear Lake home in 2001. (AP Photo/POOL/KTRK)
Elizabeth Diane Downs was convicted of killing her 7-year-old daughter and wounding two of her other children in Springfield, Oregon (AP Photo/Peter Cannata)
China Arnold was convicted of killing her month-old daughter by burning her in a microwave (AP Photo/Ron Alvey, Pool)
Michelle Kehoe convicted of killing one son and trying to kill her other son was sentenced to life in prison without parole. (AP Photo/Matthew Putney, Pool)
Susan Smith was sentenced to life in prison for the drowning deaths of her two boys, Alex and Michael (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
Shaquan Duley confessed to suffocating her two toddlers sons in 2010. She was sentenced to 35 years in prison. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)
A look at some of the mothers -- in Houston and beyond -- who faced time behind bars in the killings of their children.