Many murderers in the US have claimed justification for their murder based on the infidelity of their partner with an adulterer. I also believe adultery is not a justification for murder, but I recognise that people have different opinions, as we see in this article from Britain:
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Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge gender-neutralised his reasoning. Photograph: Ian Nicholson/PA
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'Infidelity plus' – the new defence against murder
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Vera Baird
A partner's affair can no longer be treated by courts as a defensible reason to lose control and kill – but it can be a factor
Mon 23 Jan 2012 09.39 EST
Parliament made clear two years ago that sexual infidelity should not be allowed as a defence for murder, whatever the circumstances. A partner's affair could no longer be treated by courts as a defensible reason to lose control and kill.
However, giving judgment last week, on three domestic killing appeals, Lord Chief Justice Judge ruled: "Where sexual infidelity is integral to and forms an essential part of the context the prohibition does not operate to exclude it."
It seems that parliament says infidelity doesn't count and the court says it does.
Killing a wife for infidelity was "classic" provocation under the law prior to 2009. The courts were littered with cases in which men blamed their partner's adultery for making them kill her.
