For over thirty years, three women have languished in Missouri State prison under unjust sentences for killing their abusive husbands. Denied the opportunity to enter the abuse into evidence, each of the women represents a system broken by outdated and media-sensationalized stereotypes. When a greater understanding of the "battered" syndrome change legal practices in 2000, Missouri's Governor crafts a new law demanding the parole board reevaluate each woman's case.
Checking...Scrape Manually
Editor
Sarah Devorkin
Director
Elizabeth Rohrbaugh
Director of Photography
Kat Westergaard
Original Music Composer
Daniel Miller
Original Music Composer
David Della Santa
Producer
Lindsay Nowak
homicidemissouriwomen's prisondomestic abusefemale prisonerdomestic violencephysical abuselife sentencestereotypeabusive husbandcriminal justicemental abusemurder of husbandbattered womenbattered wife syndromebattered woman syndromeclemencydouble standard