A comparison of the regulation of the crime of killing a newborn in the old and new Turkish Penal Codes and the Italian Penal Code

Abstract

Italy's Zanardelli Criminal Code of 1889 regulates the murder of a newborn baby as a separate situation. Article 369 of the law considers the crime of committing intentional slaughter under certain conditions as a special reason for criminal reduction (circostanza attenuante). According to the article: “If the crime of intentional homicide has been committed on a baby that has not yet been registered and within the first five days of his birth, with the purpose of saving the perpetrator's own dignity or the honor of his wife, sister, sister, or adopted daughter, the penalty will be imprisonment from three to ten years”.