Originally Posted by peachfront
It has been a long time since I did any reading on the subject, but I thought the whole premise of "Women Who Kill" was that a great many women are in prison for the crime of self-defense and that women may be subject to more severe punishment than a man who commits the same violent crime. I wasn't left with the impression that a woman claiming self-defense will get an automatic walk.
Obviously, someone killing someone in self-defense is a complicated matter. I guess I'm saying that if I punched some guy in the throat during, say a bar fight, I'm more likely to be prosecuted that a woman who, in a dark parking lot, fearing getting raped or murdered, also punched someone in the throat.