Gigi Jordan, a former pharmaceutical executive, was driven to kill her autistic 8-year-old son in 2010 following years of sexual torture by his biological father and threats against her own life by another ex-husband, her attorneys insisted Monday during closing arguments in the seven-week murder trial.

“This was not an act carried out with murderous intent,” solo practitioner Allan Brenner told jurors. “There was no Machiavellian plan.”