As of today, in Italy, the killing of a woman is considered more serious than the killing of a man

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'Unanimously approved in Italy, the bill introducing the crime of femicide. The senators gave their first-reading approval to the measure, which now moves to the Chamber of Deputies. The bill establishes femicide as a new, autonomous crime, punishable by life imprisonment when the murder is committed for reasons of discrimination, control, possession, domination, rejection, or hatred specifically and exclusively toward a woman.

The law introduces a serious legal asymmetry: it recognizes a specific criminal offense only if the victim is female. In doing so, the legal system moves away from the universality of criminal law, which should punish the act, not the identity of the person involved. The same action, killing a partner out of jealousy or a need for control, would be punished more severely if the victim is a woman, and not if the victim is a man. This results in a form of reverse discrimination.'

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