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<text id=93TT1233>
<title>
Mar. 22, 1993: Mitigating Circumstances
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Mar. 22, 1993 Can Animals Think
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 27
SOCIETY
Mitigating Circumstances
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<body>
<p> When the hellish life of a battered wife drives her to murder
her husband, often she has only the mercy of the justice system
to determine her fate. But in Florida, Kimberly Soubielle, 27,
became the first beneficiary of a novel state procedure that
allows a husband killer who claims battered-woman syndrome to
argue successfully for clemency before a special review panel.
The Governor and the cabinet commuted her sentence to five
years served and put her on 15-years probation. The release was
a victory for activist Candice Slaughter, who had pressed for
the reform.
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</body>
</article>
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