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If what I remember is true, she was under constant verbal and emotional abuse. She probably could have made a defense out of the battered wife syndrome.

What's sad is that people only see her actions, but gloss over what precipitated it.
 
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If what I remember is true, she was under constant verbal and emotional abuse. She probably could have made a defense out of the battered wife syndrome.

What's sad is that people only see her actions, but gloss over what precipitated it.
True, but I don't think Verbal / Emotional abuse justifies murder.

Physical abuse, we'll talk.
 
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Mary Winkler, a 33-year-old mother of three girls, was freed from a Tennessee mental health facility where she was treated for depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, lawyer Steve Farese said.
"She is out," Farese said.
She has been released.
 
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True, but I don't think Verbal / Emotional abuse justifies murder.

Physical abuse, we'll talk.

There's never justification for abuse and one does not trump another (imho.)

While physical abuse leaves visible mars, emotional and verbal create scars that only that person can see in their nightmares.
 
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An addendum:

Mary Winkler was charged with murder, which could have sent her to prison for up to 60 years, but a jury found her guilty of voluntary manslaughter following an emotional trial in which she testified about suffering years of verbal and physical abuse.
 
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Emotional abuse can be far more devastating than physical abuse. She was in a mental health facility not prison.


Indeed. Physical wounds heal (often creating psychological/emotional problems) but emotional issues just stay under the surface, decaying everything.
 
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Why didn't she just leave him if he was abusive? What was the reason for her sentence anyways? I guess I'm of the idea that one shouldn't kill unless one's life was in danger of violence. In her case, was her husband threatening to hurt her or the children?


I have the same question. There is no excuse for emotional or physical abuse, but there are too many options other than murder. She could've called one of the many hotlines for battered wives. She could've fled in the car. She could've knocked him out with a bat and escaped. Or she could've gone straight to police and said "my husband is beating me, i want some kind of protection or i think I might harm him."

If she had the guts to pull a trigger, then she had the guts to pursue another option.
 
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