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Revenge - Personal Vengeance: When Victims Become Killers

Revenge - Personal Vengeance: When Victims Become Killers

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Episode one explores the most intimate and morally complex form of revenge: victims who kill their abusers. Through landmark cases like Francine Hughes, the episode examines years of domestic violence, psychological trauma, and systemic failure that push victims beyond survival into lethal action. As legal concepts like battered woman syndrome emerge, the story challenges clear definitions of innocence and guilt. Was this murder, self-defense, or an unavoidable act of desperation? By tracing how prolonged abuse reshapes fear, agency, and choice, the episode asks whether the law can truly account for what happens when endurance finally breaks.
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