Husbandicide

The crime of husbandicide—the word is as permissible as infanticide—is as old as the discovery, made a very long time ago, that marriage is a failure.

Arsenic in the soup is fast supplanting firearms as a husbandicide among the more dashing members of the younger set.

"They're from my dear husband. I thought he'd forgotten to order them, and I was quietly plotting husbandicide."

The murdering wife became the heroine of yet another twisted variation on the fairy tale, one that came to include husbandicide as an acceptable female fantasy.