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Punitive effects of sentencing to a crime against honour: A Comparative study

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Ghufran Adnan Mohammed,Hayder Ars Afan

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The sentencing of a crime against honor has an impact on the assessment of the penalty, as the description of a crime as a breach of honor would increase the penalty, in addition to the impact of its commission on the suspension of the execution of the sentence, where the decisions of the Iraqi Court of Cassation tended not to stop the execution of the sentence in crimes against honor and to overturn the decisions of the competent courts issued to suspend the execution of the sentence in these crimes because these crimes reflect the bad morals of the perpetrators in addition to their bad impact on society, as for the impact of these crimes In the case of conditional release, the Iraqi legislator excluded in article (331/d) of the Code of Criminal Procedure No. (23) of 1971 amending some crimes against honor from the conditional release system.

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