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;