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Stricter State Laws for Strangulation?

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Stricter State Laws for Strangulation?

March 16, 2011
By Rose Kennedy
MetroPulse

Strangulation—in layman’s terms, choking—is one of the most lethal forms of domestic violence, and can bring a victim so close to death that later investigators can discern little difference between the damage done to women who survived such an attack and the bodies of victims who died from strangulation, says Amy Dilworth, director of the Knox County Family Justice Center.

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