Features of criminal responsibility for murder of passion in the legislation of Russia and foreign countries
Crime as a destructive factor in social development also infringes on the right to life. Protection of the rights and freedoms of men and citizens is the duty of the state, which it carries out in various ways, including taking criminal law measures. The Criminal Code of the Russian Federation considers the protection of the rights and freedoms of men and citizens from criminal attacks to be one of its tasks. The extent of the priority of this task can be judged by the fact that offenses against the person are placed first in the Special Part of the Criminal Code. Human life is the most important fundamental social value, and the loss of life is irreversible. There are many scientific papers written by Russian and Soviet scientists that explore murder from the perspective of Russian and foreign criminal law. The structure of the murder of passion includes provocative behavior of a victim (art. 107 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). This type of murder is committed under mitigating circumstances that consist in the particular psychic (mental) condition of a person who according to Art. 107 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation is in a "state of sudden strong emotion" and has committed a crime in the "heat of passion".