TITLE II: FELONIES AND MISDEMEANORS AGAINST PERSONS
CHAPTER 1: OFFENSES AGAINST PHYSICAL INTEGRITY
Section 1: Homicides, assault and battery
Article 378: Shall be classified as:
1° murder, homicide committed voluntarily;
2° manslaughter, killing committed with premeditation; premeditation consists in the intention
formed before the action, to attack a specific person or the person who will be found or
encountered, even if this intention depends on some circumstance or condition; it also consists in
waiting for a person for a longer or shorter period of time, in one or more places, either to kill
him or to carry out acts of violence on him;
3° parricide, the murder of the father or mother, the adoptive parents or any other ascendant;
4° poisoning, any attempt on the life of a person by the use of a substance which may cause
death, more or less rapidly, in any manner whatsoever, and whatever the consequences of this
attempt may be;
5° castration, the voluntary amputation of an organ necessary for reproduction;
6°sterilization, the deprivation of the ability to procreate by any means other than the amputation
of an organ necessary for reproduction.
Article 379: Anyone who commits manslaughter, parricide, poisoning or the felony of castration
or sterilization shall be punished with life imprisonment.
Article 380: Anyone who commits murder shall be punished by ten to twenty years
imprisonment.
Murder is punishable by life imprisonment when:
1° it precedes, accompanies or follows another felony ;
2° its purpose is either to prepare, facilitate or execute a felony, or to facilitate the escape or to
ensure the impunity of the offenders or accomplices of the felony;
3° the offender, for its realization, commits acts of torture or barbarism;
4° it is committed on a minor or on a person whose vulnerability is due to his or her age, illness,
disability, physical or psychological deficiency or to a state of pregnancy apparent or known to
the offender or any other person having a dependency relationship with him or her;
5° it is committed on the spouse or a common law partner;
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