A former ballerina who was convicted of manslaughter in what she claimed was the self-defense killing of her estranged husband was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison. Ashley Benefield, 33, had ...

Women like Ashley Benefield are regularly sent to prison by male jurists who are not educated about – or are willfully blind ...

Ashley Benefield was a former ballet dancer who was convicted of killing her husband, Doug Benefield Ashley, who was given the nickname of the "Black Swan," fatally shot her husband five years ago on ...

After nearly four years, the trial of Ashley Benefield, the former ballerina charged with second-degree murder for shooting her estranged husband Doug, began in the summer of 2024. In the lead-up to ...