"Jacqueline Dixon’s murder charge came despite the fact that she had requested an order of protection against her husband in 2016 for punching her in the face and verbally abusing her multiple times, and Dixon’s insistence that she acted in self-defense." https://survivedandpunished.org/2018/08/25/prosecutor-pursues-murder-charge-for-woman-who-defended-herself-from-abuser/
"Marissa Alexander is a survivor of domestic violence who was sentenced to a 20 year mandatory minimum sentence for firing a single warning shot into the ceiling when her abusive estranged husband attacked her." https://bcrw.barnard.edu/videos/marissa-alexander-survived-and-punished/
"Bresha k**led her father, taking the gun he brandished to terrorize and abuse her family for so many years to kill him in his sleep. Police immediately arrested her and prosecutors refused to release her while she was on trial." https://bcrw.barnard.edu/videos/bresha-meadows-survived-and-punished/
"Brown was convicted of aggravated robbery and first-degree murder for k**lng 43-year-old real estate agent Johnny Allen, whom she went home with after he picked her up for sex at a Sonic Drive-In in Nashville." https://www.npr.org/2019/08/07/749025458/cyntoia-brown-released-after-15-years-in-prison-for-murder