Is it ever acceptable to kill your husband with a lamb leg? In the story “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl, Mary Maloney kills her husband with a lamb leg. Mary Maloney committed second degree murder because she killed her husband. The reason she killed him is the conversation where he tells her he is leaving her even though she is pregnant. From the start of being told he is leaving until she kills him is about 10 minutes. She had no intention to kill him when he came home and only did so because he kept provoking her to anger. She snaps when he rudely dismisses her efforts to make dinner for them and reinforces that the world as she knows it is coming to an end. Mary wait for her husband to give him his drink to make food and to generally
