Murder Law Change Will Help Victims ; Magine These Two Situations. In the First, a Husband Is Beating Up His Wife in the Kitchen. She Seizes a Knife and Kills Him.

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Magine these two situations. In the first, a husband is beating up his wife in the kitchen. She seizes a knife and kills him.

In the second, after years of physical and mental abuse a wife decides she cannot cope any more and meticulously plans to kill her husband with poison.

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Murder Law Change Will Help Victims ; Magine These Two Situations. In the First, a Husband Is Beating Up His Wife in the Kitchen. She Seizes a Knife and Kills Him.

Currently, the wife in the first scenario could plead provocation as a partial defence to murder. But that defence is not possible in the second.

Provocation can reduce a charge of murder to one of manslaughter. Does the victim's conduct provoke a sudden loss of self-control? I...

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