A woman today pleaded guilty to strangling and decapitating her three young children, after reaching an agreement with prosecutors that spares her from the death penalty.

A US man who confessed to beheading his common-law wife's three young children has been sentenced to death after telling a judge he wanted to be executed.

A Texan who confessed to suffocating, stabbing and beheading his common-law wife’s three young children told a judge today he wants to be executed.