A Fight for Freedom

48 Hours

CBS News

True Crime, News, Tv & Film, Cbs

3.9 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Susan Wright was a 27-year-old stay-at-home mother from Texas who stabbed her husband, Jeff, 193 times. She claimed she was a victim of domestic abuse and that on January 13, 2003, her husband attacked her with a knife and she fought back in self-defense. But a jury found her guilty of murder and sentenced her to twenty-five years in prison. Six years later, a new attorney took on her case to get her sentence reduced. Would a jury agree? “48 Hours" correspondent Richard Schlesinger reports. This classic "48 Hours" episode last aired on 3/12/2011. Watch all-new episodes of “48 Hours” on Saturdays, and stream on demand on Paramount+. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:25.6	at all protected.
0:28.7	On the beach.
0:42.3	It's a horrible story and I wish that it wasn't true. I wish that none of that happened and I wished everything was so much different.
0:47.3	It's just the way that my life was.
0:50.3	State of Texas versus Susan Lucille Wright.
0:53.3	My name is Susan Wright.
0:54.8	I was charged with murder.
0:56.0	I killed my husband.
0:57.0	I was convicted of murdering my husband.
1:00.0	I just, I couldn't go on how things were.
1:05.0	Our whole marriage had been just a really big cover up. Any time that he would be upset, he would come home and take it out on us.
1:15.6	He would throw me against the walls.
1:18.6	He would hit me in the face, the stomach, the back.
1:22.6	He would kick until he wasn't angry anymore.
1:26.6	This was just another fight that got really bad. kick until he wasn't angry anymore.
1:31.3	This was just another fight that got really bad. I told him that I thought that he needed help.
1:33.3	That wasn't my place to tell him that he needed any sort of help.
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