How did the husband die?

In "A Jury of Her Peers," Minnie's husband dies of
strangulation.  His wife tells the police that someone sneaked into the house, placed a
rope around her husband's neck, and strangled him while he was sleeping.  That's the
wife's version.

The implication is that Minnie strangled
her husband herself.  The two women who make up the "jury of her peers," discover
evidence that suggests Minnie killed her husband the same way her husband killed her
canary.  Minnie, trapped in a subservient position to her husband and isolated from the
outside world--she doesn't even have a telephone--apparently found consolation and
comfort in the singing of the canary.  The suggestion is that when the husband killed
the bird, Minnie killed him.