MURD

ER
a form of extreme deviant
behavior which violates the
cultural norm which states
that it is unacceptable to
kill another human being

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DERLAW MURDER
ELEMENTS OF COMMON

Unlawful
killing
through criminal act or omission
of a human
by another human
with malice aforethought

Exclusion Capital
Punishment

(legally authorized killing of someone as

punishment for a crime)

LETHAL INJECTION

ELECTROCUTION

Exclusion Capital
Punishment

(legally authorized killing of someone as

punishment for a crime)

HANGING

GAS CHAMBER

Exclusion Capital
Punishment

(legally authorized killing of someone as

punishment for a crime)

FIRING SQUAD

STONING

Exclusion Justified
Self-Defense

Exclusion killing of enemycombatantsby

lawful combatants as well as causingcollateral
damagetonon-combatantsduring a war

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of a human This element presents the issue of

when life begins. At common law, afetuswas
not a human being.Life began when the fetus
passed through thevaginaand took its first

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by another humanThe
requirement
that
the
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person killed be someone other than the
perpetrator excluded suicide from the definition
of murder.

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with malice aforethoughta deliberate and
premeditated (prior intent)
killing of another
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motivated by ill will.
4 STATES OF MIND:
(1.) Intent to kill,
(2.) Intent to inflictgrievous bodily harmshort of
death,
(3.) Reckless indifference to an unjustifiably high risk
to human life (sometimes described as an
"abandoned and malignant heart"), or

It applies when someone commits a certain kind of felony and someone else dies
in the course of it. It doesn't matter whether the death was intentional or accidental
the defendant is liable for it.

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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7659, Section 6, Art. 248.

Murder. - Any person who, not falling within the provisions of
Article 246 (Parricide) shall kill another, shall be guilty of
murder and shall be punished by reclusion perpetua, to
death if committed with any of the following attendant
circumstances:

With treachery, taking advantage of superior strength,

with the aid of armed men, or employing means to
weaken the defense or of means or persons to insure or
afford impunity.
In consideration of a price, reward or promise.

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By means of inundation, fire, poison, explosion, shipwreck,

stranding of a vessel, derailment or assault upon a
railroad, fall of an airship, or by means of motor vehicles,
or with the use of any other means involving great waste
and ruin.
On occasion of any of the calamities enumerated in the
preceding paragraph, or of an earthquake, eruption of a
volcano, destructive cyclone, epidemic or other public
calamity.
With evident premeditation.
With cruelty, by deliberately and inhumanly augmenting
the suffering of the victim, or outraging or scoffing at his

Exclusion

Article 247 of the Revised Penal Code- involves death or

physical injuries inflicted under exceptional circumstances.
Suffer the penalty of destierro.
Any legally married person who
having surprised his spouse in
the act of committing sexual
intercourse with another
person
Under the same circumstances, to
parents with respect to their
daughters under eighteen years of
age, and their seducer, while the
daughters are living with their
parents

Duration of
Penalties

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CASES

Philippine Statistics
Authority
(Philippine Figures

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CASE

The term Chop Chop Lady became

popular in 1993. It was how the press
described remains of Elsa Castillo, the
woman gruesomely killed by her lover
Stephen Mark Whisenhun, assisted by his
driver Demetrio Ravelo who got rid of the
body parts along a stretch of the highway in
Bataan.

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CASE

The Chiong murder case was a

rape-murder case in the Philippines.
On July 16, 1997 in Cebu,
sisters Marijoy and Jacqueline
Chiong allegedly were kidnapped,
raped, and murdered. Francisco
Juan "Paco" Larraaga, a man of
dual Filipino and Spanish citizenshi
p was, along with six others,
convicted of murder, and sentenced
to death by lethal injection on
February 3, 2004

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The prosecutor decided to
pursue murder charges because
of the "presence of treachery,
cruelty, and abuse of superior
strength"
Pemberton acted out of "passion
and obfuscation," the court said,
adding that "in the heat of passion,
he arm-locked the deceased, and
dunked his (her) head in the toilet