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(07-05-2014 07:02 AM)Pepini Wrote:  

In Brazil not a while back you could kill both the wife and the lover.

You still can in Texas. It just has to be immediate with no premeditation.

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But is a crime of passion a viable legal defense? Do juries actually buy the notion that a person committed serious assault or murder simply because he was enraged by jealousy? Absolutely. In fact, Texas is known as one of the states with the highest frequency of crimes of passion, as juries often sympathize with a defendant who claims to have committed a crime of passion. We can commiserate with someone who suddenly discovers that his or her spouse is involved with someone else, and can therefore justify giving the defendant a pass.

Unsurpisingly feminists want to do away with the legal protection. From the wiki:

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In recent decades, feminists and women's rights organizations have worked to change laws and social norms which tolerate crimes of passion against women. UN Women has urged states to review legal defenses of passion and provocation, and other similar laws, to ensure that such laws do not lead to impunity in regard to violence against women, stating that "laws should clearly state that these defenses do not include or apply to crimes of “honour”, adultery, or domestic assault or murder." [4] Women's organizations have also called for the abolition of laws which criminalize adultery, arguing that such laws incite violence against women, and are used in a discriminatory way against women. A Joint Statement by the United Nations Working Group on discrimination against women in law and in practice in 2012 stated:[5] "the United Nations Working Group on discrimination against women in law and in practice is deeply concerned at the criminalization and penalization of adultery whose enforcement leads to discrimination and violence against women." UN Women also stated that "Drafters should repeal any criminal offenses related to adultery or extramarital sex between consenting adults".[6]