An odd thing you'll notice if you watch a lot of episodes of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" is that although many shows are about murder and feature the seemingly perfect crime, many times in Hitchcock's epilogues he'll essentially say "the killer was later caught and paid the price for their crimes". This really was dumb, as in some ways it undoes a wonderful episode with a moralistic message tacked on clumsily at the end. I assume the sponsors or networks must have insisted on this. "The Woman Who Wanted to Live" is yet another example of this...and a really inappropriate one.
When the story begins, Charles Bronson plays a nasty robber. He holds up a service station for just a few dollars and soon shoots and kills the attendant as a car arrives at the station. He then forces the woman in the car to drive him to safety, as the police are looking for him. During this getaway, he's pretty clear to the woman that he'll kill her and where it goes from here, you'll have to see for yourself.
As I mentioned above this episode features one of those dumb epilogues which undoes so much of the good you see in the show. Plus, the moralizing at the end really doesn't make any sense. See this for yourself...and see if you agree with me that the ending really detracts from an otherwise excellent episode that I might have scored 8 or 9 otherwise.