Second Best is the tenth episode of Season 8. It aired on September 19, 2014.
Summary[]
Seeking freedom from his controlling wife, Joan, Dennis Hawley begins seeing drug-addicted prostitute Brandita Taliano and supporting her financially. In 1993, when Joan receives an inheritance from her mother's death and plans to proceed with a divorce, Dennis, fearing financial ruin, enlists Brandita's help in murdering Joan, bludgeoning Joan with a golf club. Both are sentenced to life.
Kenneth Jones begins a relationship with Nadiyah Venable, but still loves ShaRon Owens, the mother of his children, and soon decides to reconcile with ShaRon, leaving a pregnant Nadiyah in dire straits. Nadiyah blinds ShaRon with bleach and then stabs her 27 times in front of her children. She is sentenced to 55 years in jail and dies in prison in July 2014.
Tanya Lane enters a relationship with Renae Burns, who is in the midst of an unhappy marriage to husband Steven but doesn't want to leave her children. Steven soon discovers the affair and ends the marriage, and Tanya, wanting Renae all to herself, shoots Steven to death. Tanya receives a 17-year prison term, and Renae, charged as an accessory after the fact, gets a four-year sentence.