Study: Over 18,000 women killed by men since 2003

by: By Clarissa Tapia
updated: Thursday, October 16, 2014



A new study by the Center of American Progress shows that women are more likely than men to be killed by an intimate partner.

The report found that a third of all women murdered in the U.S. are killed by intimate male partners like a husband, ex-husband, boyfriend or estranged lover.

For Stefano Solano, it’s not surprising to hear that 85 percent of women experience domestic abuse.

“No, I don’t think so, because the times are hard now, so everybody’s having a hard time,” said Solano.

However, what did shock people is that over 18,000 women were killed by men since 2003.

"Wow that's a lot of women to get murdered, none of that really should happen but it does happen," said Johnathon Arce.

The Violence Against Women Act was passed in 1994, and although annual rates of domestic violence plummeted 64 percent, an average of three women are still killed every day.

The Violence Policy Center tracked incidents where one man kills one woman, and found that Texas and New Mexico had a rate of about 1.5 women killed per 100,000 from 2003 to 2012.

Some, though, still argue that domestic abuse doesn’t happen to just women.

“I agree that men are subjected to domestic violence as well,” said Arce.

In fact, Arce knows this first-hand.

“I was kind of in an abusive relationship with my wife, she wouldn’t let me go out, she’d be really possessive and she did break my car window a few times,” said Arce.

From 2003 to 2012, 34 percent of female homicide victims were killed by an intimate partner, compared to 2.5 percent of male victims.

The Huffington Post found that over half of all women killed by intimate partners from 2001 to 2012 were killed using a gun.

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