Episode
Should People Who Killed Their Abusers Walk Free?
- Podcast
- Paper Trail
- Published
- Jun 25, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 2314
- Processing state
not_requested- Canonical source
- https://www.propublica.org/podcast/oklahoma-domestic-violence-survivors-april-wilkens
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/paper-trail-7800276/episodes/should-people-who-killed-their-abusers-walk-free/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/paper-trail-7800276/should-people-who-killed-their-abusers-walk-free.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
In 2024, Oklahoma legislators passed an unusual law: It would create a pathway to freedom for people who could prove that domestic violence was a substantial contributing factor to their crime — even if that crime was first-degree murder. Members of a “survivor sisterhood” who’d found a connection in their shared histories of abuse hoped that, perhaps, they would all soon be going home. But, as reporter Pamela Colloff discovered, nothing would play out as expected. Reporter: Pamela Colloff Read More: https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-survivors-act-domestic-violence Support our journalism by donating at propublica.org/donate .