I’m not surprised by your beliefs at all, I was born in the south and have many friends and relatives there.
Thanks for asking my suggestions.
It appears she left the situation and I wouldn’t minimize the effects of therapy for trauma.
I would also suggest letting your daughter know being set free is hardly guaranteed, the statistics are against her. And any felony on her record would diminish her opportunities, like teaching, or voting. She should know the risk of blowing someone away, especially a partner or husband, not to mention the long term psychological effects of killing someone in a relationship.
Brittany Smith released from Alabama state prison, her supporters are still puzzled by her conviction
In court filings, Smith described days of torment. She testified that Todd chased her to her own bedroom and threatened to kill her. She later woke up naked in her own urine.
She said Todd tried to "break her neck off the side of the bed because she tried to fight him."
They later ended up on the floor and she said he strangled her until she was unconscious.
She accused Todd of raping her several times.
She told police how they later went to a gas station, when she wrote a note with Todd's name on it and gave it to the clerk.
"If I'm dead in the morning, this is who did it," she told the clerk.
Smith tried to assert what's called a stand your ground defense
But a judge denied her defense.
Smith later took a plea deal and was sentenced to 20 years in state prison
"If you can't use it in her case, I don't know what case you can use it in," said Rachel Louise Snyder
In her research, Louise Snyder found as many as
90% of woman serving time for murder were convicted of killing people they accused of domestic violence and sexual assault.
At the time of her arrest, Alabama had never allowed a single woman to use stand your ground in her own defense
Netflix documentary focuses on Brittany Smith, an Alabama woman who killed man she said raped her
Remkus says in the Netflix trailer that the case asked the question, “Are women able to use the system to defend themselves in the way that men are?”
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Nicole Addimando faced horrific physical and sexual abuse by her husband for years, and in 2017 shot and killed him on their couch after she says he threatened her with the gun.
She was convicted of second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a handgun for the shooting death in Poughkeepsie, New York.
A new 2019 law in the state did make her eligible to have her sentence reduced as a victim of domestic violence.
But a judge ruled in February 2020 that she didn’t meet the requirements for a reduced sentence, saying she had opportunities to leave her abuser.
She was given 19 years to life in prison.
Women Serve Longer Prison Sentences After Killing Abusers
According to statistics women who kill their partners will spend an average of 15 years behind bars, while men who kill their female partners serve much shorter sentences, on average between 2 to 6 years.
While most would agree homicide dictates a sizable prison stint, the question is, why are women being punished so much more harshly, especially when you consider this statistic: At least 90 percent of women in prison for killing men report having been abused by those men?
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