JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE? When can you legally shoot an intruder in your own home? This question is on everyone’s mind when he or she hears a loud bang in the middle of the night. When can a woman who has been repeatedly battered take it upon herself to rid the world of man who is an abuser? This is on the mind of every woman who is battered as she lays and watches her abuser …showed first 75 words of 832 total…

…showed last 75 words of 832 total…circumstances presented I believe Janice Subin crossed the line of reasonable behavior. A sleeping man is not a threat to her safety. When she left that bed, there was ample opportunity to leave the home, to put distance between herself and her abuser. We, a civil society, cannot take justice into our own hands in that manner. If we continue on this path, we are the beginning of our own demise as a civil society.