18-year sentence for an abused woman who killed her husband, SCC Chief Administrator, Hong Kong legal system

This week on Legally Speaking with Michael Mulligan: In 1976, when Canada eliminated the death penalty for murder, the compromise was a mandatory life sentence for people convicted of murder. One of the circumstances where mandatory life sentences can result in an excessively long period of time in jail is for people who are subject to long periods of domestic abuse who eventually kill their partner. Recently, in Alberta, a woman who was seriously abused by her husband for almost ...