Scholarship on women and homicide has focused increasingly on the ways in which race, class, ethnicity, and sexual identity intersect to produce patterns of severity and leniency toward women accused of murder. However, prosecutions of individuals rarely hook neatly into such matrices. This article uses an alleged instance of husband poisoning in early Federation New South Wales to illustrate the capacity of case studies to illuminate the contingencies of capital justice. Far from an instance of women's lethal violence springing from male abuse, or a straightforward example of the patriarchal legal system at work, Jane Hetherington's conviction was a likely miscarriage of justice.

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谋杀还是误判？新南威尔士州早期联邦一例丈夫中毒事件

关于女性和凶杀的学术研究越来越关注种族、阶级、民族和性别认同的交叉方式，以产生对被指控谋杀的女性的严厉和宽大的模式。然而，对个人的起诉很少巧妙地与这种矩阵挂钩。本文使用一个据称在新南威尔士州联邦早期发生的丈夫中毒事件来说明案例研究阐明资本正义的偶然性的能力。简·赫瑟林顿 (Jane Hetherington) 的定罪远非因男性虐待而导致女性致命暴力的实例，也远非工作中父权制法律制度的一个直接例子，很可能是误判。