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Constitutional Court upholds harsher penalties for killing parents
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The Constitutional Court on Thursday upheld a law imposing harsher penalties for murdering a parent or other direct ascendant than for ordinary murder. The court ruled 8-1 that Article 250, Paragraph 2 of the Criminal Act, which prescribes aggravated punishment for killing one’s own or one’s spouse’s direct ascendant, is constitutional. Under the provision, those convicted face the death penalty, life imprisonment or a prison term of at least seven years. Ordinary murder, by comparison, carries
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