Jurors in a woman's third trial found her guilty today of burning her baby daughter to death in a microwave oven.

A mother who killed her month-old baby daughter by burning her in a microwave was sentenced to life in prison today.

Lawyers for an Ohio woman convicted of microwaving her baby daughter have asked for a new trial because a former cellmate who claimed she confessed to the killing had changed her story.

A woman has been arrested in the US on suspicion of murdering her newborn daughter by microwaving the infant in an oven.