چکیده:
Honor killing is not a phenomenon related to one or more specific countries or religions، however، it often occurs in countries with Muslim majority. Besides other factors affecting the occurrence of honor killings، criminal laws of a society can have significant effect on the community level. Determining the type and amount of punishment for honor killing perpetrators، the rate of population information about amnesty law، amnesty of slain' s parents and other factors can decrease the honor killings. Reviewing laws and regulations in our country can affect it too. On the other hand، jurisprudence sources related to honor killing subjects can be changed.
خلاصه ماشینی:
The type and amount of punishment prescribed for perpetrators of honor killings, the use of mitigating excuses in case of committing this type of murder, and the extent of public knowledge regarding such legal leniencies and the pardon of the perpetrator by the next of kin, which is widespread in honor killings, are among the most important influences of criminal laws on increasing the rate of honor killings in Iranian society, where serious attention to these issues will have a significant impact on reducing honor killings.
According to Article 207 of the Islamic Penal Code, the primary punishment for intentional murder is retaliation (Qisas), and if the next of kin of the victim waives the retaliation, they no longer have the right to receive blood money (Diyah), unless they agree with each other to receive a financial settlement, and they can also exempt the killer from paying it; however, in any case, if this act of the killer (committing murder) causes disruption in the eyes of society or fear, or if there is a fear of recidivism by the perpetrator or others, the court can sentence him to 3 to 10 years of imprisonment.
The reason for this is that if an individual knows completely that there is an article in the law that allows him to kill a woman, but he must later fully prove the conditions and rulings of adultery, it will likely have less of a provocative effect on him than if an individual has incomplete knowledge that there is an article in the Islamic Penal Code that allows him to commit murder to preserve honor.
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