Mary Winkler, a pastor’s wife, shot him in the back with a shotgun, fled with her three daughters to an Alabama beach and claimed years of mistreatment and abuse: she ended up confessing, and the judge sentenced her to just 150 days in jail

At trial, her defense argued that she had endured years of physical and emotional abuse and constant criticism.
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ABC News

The jury did not convict her of murder, but of voluntary manslaughter. The sentence was 150 days in jail plus 60 days in a mental health facility, and in 2008 she regained full custody of the girls.