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Francine Moran Hughes (later Wilson; August 17, 1947 – March 22, 2017) [1] was an American woman who, after thirteen years of domestic abuse, set fire to the bed in which her live-in ex-husband Mickey Hughes was sleeping, on March 9, 1977, in Dansville, Michigan. Mickey was killed and the house destroyed in the resulting fire.
21 mar 2019 · Francine Hughes stood outside her Michigan home, watching it burn. Inside was her abusive husband, Mickey. Earlier that night, he had beaten and raped her for the last time.
31 mar 2017 · Ms. Hughes was charged with first-degree murder. In November, a jury of 10 women and two men took five hours to pronounce Ms. Hughes not guilty by reason of temporary insanity. The case,...
9 lip 2020 · A new documentary looks at the landmark case of Francine Hughes and examines the inequalities in the criminal-justice system’s treatment of women who kill in self-defense.
Francine Moran Hughes (later Wilson; August 17, 1947 – March 22, 2017) was an American woman who, after thirteen years of domestic abuse, set fire to the bed in which her live-in ex-husband Mickey Hughes was sleeping, on March 9, 1977, in Dansville, Michigan. Mickey was killed and the house destroyed in the resulting fire.
9 lip 2020 · Francine Hughes did not stab her husband or kill her husband while he was in the process of abusing her. He was sound asleep in a drunken stupor. And we decided at that time to charge her with first-degree murder.
3 kwi 2017 · That’s how Barbara Niess-May, executive director of SafeHouse Center in Ann Arbor, described the case of Francine Hughes of Dansville, Michigan. On March 9, 1977, Hughes ended 13 years of abuse from her husband James. She waited until he was asleep, poured gasoline around his bed and set it on fire. He died as a result.
