Many women are in prison for killing their abusive partners. Lawmakers in Georgia, Missouri, Connecticut and Massachusetts ...

Mary Favors is still plagued by nightmares from the days her husband beat her, choked her, and verbally and sexually abused ...

Prosecutors accused her of stabbing him. “It happened so fast,” Favors, 58, told The Associated Press from prison in Georgia, later adding, “I felt my life was at risk.” Between 74% and 95 ...

Cards written by domestic violence survivors who have been charged with crimes about the Georgia Survivor Justice Act taken are shown in Atlanta on March 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlotte Kramon) ...

At other times, they say, people simply don’t believe women’s stories, with women of color like Favors who survive abuse especially likely to end up in prison. But under the Georgia Survivor ...

Story continues below this ad “It happened so fast,” Favors, 58, told The Associated Press from prison, later adding, “I felt my life was at risk.” Between 74% and 95% of incarcerated women have ...

Now, she is in prison for killing him. Their fights often turned physical, and five times he was convicted of abusing her. Then one night in April 2011, court records show, Troy Favors began ...