A case of self-defense occurred in Anhui. A man wanted to rape a woman, but the woman strangled the man to death out of self-defense. When executing the judgment, the court determined that the woman acted in self-defense and did not bear any criminal responsibility. That night in 2018, the then criminal suspect Xu came home after drinking and saw a woman spraying pesticides on a ridge by the roadside, so he wanted to have sex with her directly.
In order to prevent the woman from being raped, Xu struggled to resist, but was thrown to the ground by the woman. She strangled the man's neck with the water pipe above the pesticide, and the man immediately threatened her not to do anything to her. At that time, the two were in a stalemate in the paddy field. Xu claimed that he could not violate her and could send her home.
The woman certainly didn’t believe it at the time, so she shouted for help. Although it did attract the attention of nearby people, no one came to check. The man actually wanted to break free from the water pipe and hurt the woman, so the woman was very frightened and went straight to pull the water pipe and strangled her to death. After a while, the man lay down on the paddy field. The woman didn't know that the man was dead. She thought the man did it on purpose, so she took the things and went home.
Unexpectedly, when people found the man the next day, he was already dead. When police arrived at the scene, they found the man had been strangled. After the incident happened, the woman knew she had done it and went straight to surrender. At that time, she went to tell the story and the police arrested her for intentional homicide. The prosecutor's office believed that the woman was raped first, so she attacked others. Her actions effectively constituted self-defense and she was not held responsible.
Any time we are personally attacked, we can use legal weapons to protect ourselves. But in an emergency, you can only protect yourself by knocking the offender unconscious with objects around you. If you accidentally injure or kill another person, it is self-defense. However, in some cases, if the defense is excessive, you will still have to bear corresponding criminal liability and be punished by law. An anti-murder case that occurred in Kunshan at that time was such a case and was considered legitimate defense.