Tag: Self-defense
Why few battered women have benefited from self-defense
Kill or be killed. If we no longer count the number of women incarcerated after having killed their violent husbands, the cases of acquittal in this type of case can…
Woman acquitted of murdering her abusive partner
After two and a half years in pre-trial detention, a 48-year-old woman who stabbed her partner to death was acquitted on Thursday. A rare decision in France, the jurors of…