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Georgia is an independent European nation.
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Georgia is an independent European nation.
Under the Georgian criminal code, homicides are classified into multiple categories. These include intentional killing (Article 108); intentional killing under aggravating circumstances (Article 109); killing at the victim's request (Article 110); intentional murder in a state of sudden, strong emotional excitement (Article 111); intentional infanticide by a mother (Article 112); murder by exceeding the self-defence limits (Article 113); murder by exceeding the extent required for seizing a perpetrator (Article 114); and killing by negligence (Article 116). [1]
Intentional killings are punishable by imprisonment for a term of seven to fifteen years, with or without restriction of the rights regarding weapons. For intentional killing under aggravating circumstances, the following punishments are applied:
Felony murder is when a death occurs during committing an "inherently dangerous felony" such as a burglary. The death could be unintentional and accidental, but is still considered murder because it occurred during the commission of a felony. Murder and felony murder attract the severest form of punishment, including the death penalty and imprisonment.
Manslaughter is murder committed without direct intention as in an accident.
Euthanasia is punishable by house arrest for a term of six months to two years or imprisonment for two to five years.
Intentional murder in a state of sudden, strong emotional excitement is punished by house arrest for one to two years or imprisonment for one to three years. When intentional murder is committed against two or more persons, the punishment is house arrest for a term of one to two years or imprisonment for a term of two to five years.
Infanticide by mother is punished by house arrest for a term of six months to two years or imprisonment for three to five years.
Murder that exceeds the self-defence limits is punished by corrective labour for up to two years, house arrest for six months to two years, or by imprisonment for one to three years.
Murder by exceeding the extent required for seizing a perpetrator is punished by corrective labour for up to two years, house arrest for six months to two years, or imprisonment for three years.
Killing by negligence is punished by house arrest for six months to two years or imprisonment for a term of two to four years. When two or more persons are killed by negligence the punishment is imprisonment for three to five years. [1]
Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought. This state of mind may, depending upon the jurisdiction, distinguish murder from other forms of unlawful homicide, such as manslaughter. Manslaughter is killing committed in the absence of malice, brought about by reasonable provocation, or diminished capacity. Involuntary manslaughter, where it is recognized, is a killing that lacks all but the most attenuated guilty intent, recklessness.
Burglary, also called breaking and entering (B&E) and sometimes housebreaking, is the act of illegally entering a building or other areas without permission, typically with the intention of committing a criminal offence. Usually that offence is theft, larceny, robbery, or murder, but most jurisdictions include others within the ambit of burglary. To commit burglary is to burgle, a term back-formed from the word burglar, or to burglarize.
The Offences against the Person Act 1861 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It consolidated provisions related to offences against the person from a number of earlier statutes into a single Act. For the most part these provisions were, according to the draftsman of the Act, incorporated with little or no variation in their phraseology. It is one of a group of Acts sometimes referred to as the Criminal Law Consolidation Acts 1861. It was passed with the object of simplifying the law. It is essentially a revised version of an earlier Consolidation Act, the Offences Against the Person Act 1828, incorporating subsequent statutes.
Resisting arrest, or simply resisting, is an illegal act of a suspected criminal either fleeing, threatening, assaulting, or providing a fake ID to a police officer during arrest. In most cases, the person responsible for resisting arrest is criminally charged or taken to court. In fewer, they are killed.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons in Nigeria face severe challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents. LGBT rights are generally infringed upon and homosexuality is illegal in Nigeria and punishable by up to 14 years of prison in the conventional court system. There is no legal protection for LGBT rights in Nigeria—a largely conservative country of more than 225 million people, split between a mainly Muslim north and a largely Christian south. Very few LGBT persons are open about their sexual orientation, as violence against them is frequent. Many LGBTQ Nigerians are fleeing to countries with progressive law to seek protection.
In United States law, reckless driving is a major moving violation related to aggressive driving that generally consists of driving a vehicle with willful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property. It is usually a more serious offense than careless driving, improper driving, or driving without due care and attention, and is often punishable by fines, imprisonment, or the suspension or revocation of one's driver's license. In Commonwealth countries, the offense of dangerous driving applies.
Prostitution in Qatar is illegal and carries severe punishment of several years in prison. Prostitution normally takes place in bars, nightclubs and hotels. There are occasional clamp-downs and the prostitutes are arrested and deported.
In Denmark manddrab (manslaughter) is the term used by the Danish penalty law to describe the act of intentionally killing another person. No distinction between manslaughter and murder exists. The penalty goes from a minimum of five years to imprisonment for life. The standard punishment for manslaughter - i.e. where there are neither aggravating or mitigating circumstances - is 12 years imprisonment.
In Finland, murder is defined as homicide with at least one of four aggravating factors:
Under Dutch law, moord (murder) is the intentional and premeditated killing of another person. Murder is punishable by a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, which is the longest prison sentence the law will allow for. Unlike in most other European countries, there is no possibility for parole for those sentenced to life in the Netherlands. It is one of the few countries in Europe where life imprisonment actually lasts for the remainder of the life of the convicted person, unless the sentence is commuted or pardoned by the Sovereign of the Netherlands. However, this rarely happens and few appeals to the King for clemency have ever been successful.
The Portuguese Penal Code was adopted in 1982 and has been revised on several occasions, most recently in 2007. It devotes a whole chapter on "crimes against human life". In fact, the very first crime addressed on that code is murder.
According to the modern Russian Criminal Code, only intentional killing of another human is considered as a murder. The following types of murder are defined:
According to the Romanian penal code, the maximum punishment a person can get for the unlawful killing of another is life imprisonment.
In Sweden, the following homicide offenses exist:
In Switzerland, articles 111 to 117 of the Swiss Criminal Code detail the various scenarios in which the killing of another person is punishable. Articles 112 to 117 are leges speciales to article 111, meaning that when the conditions of one of the latter are met, article 111 will not be invoked.
In the United States, the law for murder varies by jurisdiction. In many US jurisdictions there is a hierarchy of acts, known collectively as homicide, of which first-degree murder and felony murder are the most serious, followed by second-degree murder and, in a few states, third-degree murder, which in other states is divided into voluntary manslaughter, and involuntary manslaughter such as reckless homicide and negligent homicide, which are the least serious, and ending finally in justifiable homicide, which is not a crime. However, because there are at least 52 relevant jurisdictions, each with its own criminal code, this is a considerable simplification.
Capital punishment is currently a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Kansas, although it has not been used since 1965.
Criminal Code of Azerbaijan. The Article deals with the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan which was adopted on December 30, 1999, and entered into force on September 1, 2000.
Murder in Wisconsin constitutes the intentional killing, under circumstances defined by law, of people within or under the jurisdiction of the U.S. state of Wisconsin.
Murder in Delaware constitutes the unlawful killing, under circumstances defined by law, of people within or under the jurisdiction of the U.S. state of Delaware.