Women who killed men seek freedom

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'The hearings are the result of a 10-year effort by a group of attorneys and advocates for domestic violence victims. The group, the Missouri Battered Women's Clemency Coalition, has taken up 11 cases in Missouri, and has already helped get three women released early.

At the time the women were arrested, the group argues, there were few resources for battered women, domestic violence was poorly understood and evidence of abuse was not presented at trial.

"If they were in these situations today, they would not have been charged with the crimes they were charged with," said Colleen Coble, one of the leaders in the Clemency Coalition. "There was nothing for these women. They were left alone."
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They will encounter some opposition. The prosecutors in their cases, and some family members of their slain husbands, have argued that no evidence of domestic violence exists.'