Title: Why Do Some Women Kill? - ABC News
Headings: Why Do Some Women Kill?
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Content: Women Less Likely to Use Extreme Violence
"There are a number of different roads that lead to someone taking someone else's life," said Xavier Amador, a clinical psychology professor at Columbia University. " In women, in my experience, it tends to be typically related to a history of abuse or psychosis." Women are also less likely to use a violent means of killing or to plan out their attacks, psychologists say. Though women account for roughly 10 percent of all homicides, they are involved in 36 percent of poisonings, according to the Justice Department. Stacey Castor was sentenced to 25 years to life last year for poisoning her husband David Castor with antifreeze, and to another 25 years for the attempt to kill her daughter Ashley Wallace, then 20, with an overdose of drugs and vodka in September 2007. "Women tend as a rule to do softer killings, poisoning, suffocation, those sorts of things. Rarely are they the slasher types or inflicting a lot of bodily damage," said Gregg McCrary, a retired criminal profiler for the FBI. "For women, killing is often seen as a last resort -- a defensive move, whereas, for men, it's an offenseive move," said Fox. Comments ( 0)