Westchester County (WSYR-TV) – An Oswego woman sentenced to 10 years in prison for killing her husband, has passed away behind bars.
Before 70-year-old Joyce Malone was sentenced for killing her husband, Ralph Malone, she had already been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Her husband, an ex-police officer, was asleep on the couch when she shot him.
In January 2011, a jury found Malone guilty of murder, but they also accepted a defense of “extreme emotional disturbance” and she was sentenced on a lesser charge, manslaughter.
According to the elderly Town of Oswego woman, her husband abused her both physically and emotionally for decades.
Oswego County woman sentenced for killing husband
April 12
Oswego (WSYR-TV) – An Oswego County woman convicted in January of killing her husband as he slept on the couch was sentenced on Tuesday morning.
70-year-old Joyce Malone, a town of Oswego resident suffering from advanced cancer, will spend 10 years in prison.
In March of 2010, she was arrested and accused of fatally shooting her 74-year-old husband Ralph Malone.
Police said Malone told them her husband had abused her for years and she “couldn’t take it anymore.”
Initially, she was expected to serve 25 years to life in prison. She will continue to receive treatment for cancer in prison.
Oswego County woman, 70, convicted in husband's slaying
Jan. 25
OSWEGO, N.Y. (AP) - A 70-year-old woman has been convicted of fatally shooting her ex-police officer husband as he slept on a couch in their Town of Oswego home.
An Oswego County Court jury found Joyce Malone guilty of first-degree manslaughter Monday after deliberating for about six hours.
Malone was also charged with second-degree murder in the killing of 74-year-old Ralph Malone inside their town of Oswego home last March.
The jury agreed with her defense attorney's claim that she suffered extreme emotional disturbance and convicted her of the lesser charge.
Joyce Malone's defense said she suffered decades of verbal and mental abuse from her husband, who worked as a city of Oswego police officer from 1965-73.
She faces five to 25 years in state prison when she's sentenced March 7.
