Domestic violence: How the law treats women who kill a violent partner

In the vast majority of cases where women kill their partners, there is a history of domestic violence.

Isolation as well as often cyclical psychological and physical abuse means leaving home is not only difficult, but can be deadly. Almost half of all spousal homicides committed by men involved killing women who had left them, or were attempting to do so.

This can drive desperate women to attack or kill their partner. But when battered women fight back, the law does not always truly take into account the difficulty of their circumstances.

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