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The penalty should be aggravated if the agent is reincident, or if the victim is a relative, a pregnant woman, an ill person, or is under protection of authorities, or if the act is committed during public calamity or personal disgrace of the victim, or with abuse of power or violation of
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Penalties for unintentional murder are increased by one third, if it results of inobservation of technical rule of professional activity, or if the agent fails to render aid to the victim, does not act to lessen the consequences of the act, or flees to avoid detention.
45:(where the agent has no intention to kill, nor takes the risk of killing as a predictable consequence of his or her acts). The penalty for intentional homicide varies from six to twenty years; the penalty for unintentional homicide varies from one to three years.
123:, defined as the killing of a newborn, during birth or immediately after by its own mother, under the influence of puerperal state, constitutes a different crime, punished under article 123.
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or incomplete development, to understand the nature of the act or to behave in accordance to such understandment (article 26). Instead, the agent should be interned in a
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Minors of 18 are criminally inimputable (and are dealt with according to the
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In these cases, penalty varies from twelve to thirty years.
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18:For a general discussion of the law of murder, see
132:Impossible crimes are not punished (article 17).
48:Intentional homicide may be further qualified (
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