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What Next - Why Women Kill

What Next - Why Women Kill

One commonality among women incarcerated for homicide raises the question, what is self-defense—and who’s entitled to it?

Slate Daily Feed · Slate

March 3, 202530m 34s

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Show Notes

A survey of people incarcerated in California found that 20 percent of women in for homicide had killed their abusive partners. How have self-defense laws failed women in abusive relationships—and how can they be reformed to save lives?


Guest: Rachel Louise Snyder, journalist, author of No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us, and professor at American University.


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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther.


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