Is there a lawyer in the house?

Legal scholar Jessica McBride asks:

Should the states get to decide if a man can legally murder his wife or a woman her husband?

Illusory Tenant answers:

That is precisely what the States get to decide, always has been, and as a matter of fact, it wasn't all that long ago that adultery was a successful affirmative defense against a murder charge.

In which case there might not be the ex-Mrs. Bucher, but the widow Bucher.

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