Domestic Murder Domestic murder is the killing of one person by another within the family. Numerous cases of domestic homicide occur every year. A third of all murders are committed by women. There is also a 41% chance that the killer was a woman in a spousal murder trial (Dawson 1). Women should have their cases taken seriously and not sympathetically just because they are smaller and weaker than their counterparts. There are laws and orders of protection provided throughout the United States, so women should not have to face any type of violence or abuse. If they are not treated violently, there should be no reason for women to try to kill their abusive husband. Women should be tried for the murder of their abusive husband just like any other person who commits murder in America. In “Domestic Violence, Law Enforcement, and Court Responses to Domestic Violence” from Child Abuse and Domestic Violence, Doak demonstrates that there are many opportunities for women to distance themselves from domestic violence. Doak begins by talking about arrests made due to domestic violence then shows some tables with statistics. Subsequently it presents some cases of domestic violence and continues with the laws approved to help families who are victims of domestic violence. Doak concludes the chapter with help offered to abusive men and provides some statistics regarding dropout rates and the chances of men re-abusing others. Doak's goal was to present the reader with facts to show how to avoid domestic abuse and murder and what happens to men after they are arrested. Doak uses a formal and factual tone so that his testimony will be taken seriously by the audience. D... center of paper... Husband Angelo Heddington is a woman after stabbing him to death." International Affairs Times. December 7, 2012. Web. November 18, 2013. Mike, Blanchfield. "SUPREME COURT FREES A NOVA SCOTIA WOMAN RCMP ARRESTED HER FOR HIRING A MAYOR, RATHER THAN CHARGING ABUSIVE HUSBAND." Guelph Mercury (ON) n.d.: Viewpoints Reference Centre. Network. 18 November 2013. Anthony, Templeton. " I pointed the gun and shot: the wife cleared of murder tells how she shot her violent husband in the head." Courier Mail, The (Brisbane) (2010): 19. Point of view reference centre. Network. 18 November 2013.Saunders, Daniel G. Victims and Violence. Springer Publishing Company: 1986Doak, Melissa J. Child Abuse and Domestic Violence. 2011 Edition. Gale Cengage Learning: Detroit.Dawson, John M. and Patrick A. Langan, Ph .D. Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report: Family Homicides. Database.