Susan Wright claimed she was a battered spouse. Prosecutors called the case "divorce by homicide."
A Houston woman known as the "blue-eyed butcher" was resentenced Tuesday to 20 years for stabbing her husband some 200 times.
Susan Wright was convicted of first-degree murder in 2004 in the stabbing death of her husband, Jeffrey Wright. According to testimony, she buried the body in the backyard of their Houston-area home.
The same jury that convicted Wright sentenced her at the time to 25 years in prison, but an appeals court overturned her sentence last year, saying her attorneys had bungled the case.
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