“Woman and Her Right to Kill” – 1922. If the law making deliberate murder a capital offense is to be suspended in the discretion of juries, when the assassin is a woman, it would be better to specifically to exempt from any punishment women who murder their paramours.

shadowbanned6 · 2013-06-20T05:32:35+00:00

DAILY EDITORIAL DIGEST APRIL 19, 1922[FULL TEXT]: Whether it is not wasting the money of the taxpayers trying women for murder in cases where the so-called unwritten law can be evoked is the subject of comment throughout the country. The discussion centers upon the recent acquittal of Miss Olivia Stone, the Cincinnati nurse, who shot a former corporation counsel of that city because she alleged he had failed to keep his promise to marry her.

“If women who commit crimes of passion are always to go free,” suggests the NEW YORK WORLD, “why bother to try them? Why not provide an immunity procedure, based on the unwritten law and including recognition of the tender susceptibilities of sympathetic jurors, whereby the process of exculpation may be shortened and cheapened? The plan would do away with considerable hypocrisy and humbug in the name of justice,” which leads the Syracuse, N. Y. HERALD, to remark:—”Why not? Why should the money of taxpayers be wasted in the prosecution of women who kill their comrades in illicit relationship?

jonnytechno · 2013-06-20T07:07:02+00:00

Oh the patriarchy ... /s

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