Marriage is a life long commitment between two people.
Vows are taken as a promise to one another, " Till Death Do us
Part" may be the most well known vow, but with the two women I
will be discussing they take it into their own hands to speed up
the process. The following stories are about two women who commit
murder in some form, perhaps intentional or not who are not
punished as far as the story tells us. Fortunately, we have a
legal system that is designed to prevent these homicides and
programs specifically designed to help women in cases like these
that feel they have no other choice but to murder their husband
to achieve freedom. As you will see these women were so desperate
that they felt murder was their only option. One woman did it for
freedom, and the other for companionship, both are murderers any
Emily Grierson, lived alone in an old " eyesore" of a house
that no one had been inside of since she stopped giving china
painting lessons ten years ago. She was considered a tradition in
her town, and was shown special treatment thanks to a former
mayor who'd pardoned her from the rules that applied to negro
women at that time. However, the next generation didn't look upon
Emily so kindly. Tax forms were constantly mailed to her home,
the townspeople found the smell that seeped from her home so
unbearable that they snuck onto her property to correct the
situation. Emily had no contact with the townspeople, Until she
met Homer Barron, a Northerner foreman, notorious for drinking
and taking a liking to younger men.
Within a few days, Emily and Homer were seen
riding together in a buggy, and spending alot of time together.
The townspeople thought that the they would marry, but
when they heard that Emily bought arsenic they assumed she would
kill herself and were happy for her, they said " it would be the
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