Originally Posted by jiro123

You and Jillio confuse murder with many different type of killings. We're under assumption that "murder" is a brutal killing of victim in merciless way - wrong place at wrong time. In your example, a spouse killing an abusive person is pretty different.

and believe me - NO JURY will convict her to death penalty. If they did, maybe the prosecutor proved sufficiently that the spouse did not sufficiently sought for help or alternatives to stop him - called police, called for help, run away, etc.

Yes I understand there are circumstances in every case which is why we have choices - It is up to jury, judge, and family to determine the fate of criminal. I don't support death penalty as an answer for everything but I support the option of death penalty on the table.