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should someone who is being abused be charged with murder if they kill the person who is abusing them?

if someone is being abused should they be charged with murder if they snap and kill their abuser. or should they be let go because of the Circumstances.
  • umm....
    Well...This ones tricky. I think it depends on the situation. Like someone else said. If you are just sitting at your house stewing over being bullied or raped or molested and decide to do it then...I think I'd vote no. Then it is premeditated although it could also be twisted into temporary insanity given a good lawyer. If you are in the middle of an extremely dangerous situation and during the scuffle to get out of there they die now then thats an accident so I can buy it. I think that if your abused and can somehow prove it by whether you told someone or wrote it in a journal constantly or something, then it should definitly be taken into consideration.

    It bugs me when women will just say he/she abused me in court for sympathy when they killed the person for another reason completely.

    Clearly this is a case by case debate.
    40%  Voted for by Stepherz804, Weydon.
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  • Maybe
    It would depend on the severity of the abuse as well as many other factors,I certainly think that justifyable homicide should still be a term concidered in our court system (it is not)
    Voted for by Dwn.
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  • sets a bad example
    no, they still killed someone. no one should be let go after killing someone! if they were abused they need to get help to deal with the problem

    besides, no one deserves to die.
    Voted for by Kazrith.
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  • i think they should be let go!!
    i think that if they were being abused than its ok for them to get away with the murder. i mean the abuser would keep on doing what they were doing until they killed the abused. it would be a way for them to get a kind of justice. also they would be preventing anyone else from being abused by that person.
    Voted for by caylierose.
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