The Nazi murder law that still exists

[diehard]

A surviving statute from 1941 means that women who kill their abusive husbands are more likely to be jailed for murder than husbands who beat their wives to death.

According to the German Association of Lawyers, the Nazis decided that a murderer was someone who killed "treacherously" or "sneakily" - "heimtueckisch" is the word in the law and it remains there today.

The Nazi murder law that still exists

Do we have something similar in Canada?

In the US you can get life for a non-violent simple possession.
or you kill a baby and you get 5 years: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/17/mike-nealey-5-years_n_4617632.html?ir=Crime

 

[Aardvark154]

The Nazi murder law that still exists

As a legal principle laws exist until they are either repealed or by their internal wording expire.

For example contrary to most of the rest of the English Speaking World in Massachusetts (and Maine which as until 1820 part of Massachusetts) a land owner owns to the low water rather than the high water mark, with the public having a right of access for purposes of fishing and fowling and the repair of boats. This dates from the Massachusetts Bay Colony Ordinances of 1647 and it is still good law.

As to this particular German law I'm surprised that the element of "heimtueckisch" i.e. "treacherously" or "sneakily" wasn't removed from the law years ago.

In the US you can get life for a non-violent simple possession.
or you kill a baby and you get 5 years: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/17/mike-nealey-5-years_n_4617632.html?ir=Crime

This is a different matter - Judicial Discretion. The arguments go back and forth from this article the judge shouldn't have had the discretion to impose so short a sentence. To the Attorney General of the United States arguing a couple of months ago that judges should have the discretion to sentence users of Crack Cocaine less harshly than the Federal Sentencing Guidelines currently provide.