FIRST VOLUME
General Provisions
SECOND CHAPTER
Essence of Criminal Responsibility
FIRST SECTION
Individuality of Criminal Responsibility, Malice and Negligence
Malice
ARTICLE 21- (1) In order to consider an act as an offense, a crime has to be intended by the offender. Malice is an intention to cause harm being aware of the legal consequences of the crime defined in the laws.
(2) Execution of an act by a person being aware of its legal consequences defined in the law is considered as malice. In that case, the offender is sentenced to life imprisonment in offences which require heavy imprisonment and to imprisonment between twenty years and twenty-five years in the offenses which require life imprisonment; in other offenses the basic punishment is abated from one third to one half.
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