| Front | ARTICLE 248. MURDER Circumstances |
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| Back | Murder – unlawful killing of any person which is not parricide or infanticide, provided that any of the following circumstances is present: 1. With treachery, taking advantage of superior strength, with the aid of armed men, or employs means to weaken the defense, or of means or persons to insure or afford impunity; 2. In consideration of a price, reward or promise; 3. By means of inundation, fire, poison, shipwreck, stranding of a vessel, derailment or assault upon a railroad, fall of an airship, by means of motor vehicles, or with the use of any other means involving great waste and ruin; 4. On occasion of any calamities enumerated in the preceding paragraph, or of an earthquake, eruption of a volcano, destructive cyclone, epidemic, or any other public calamity; 5. With evident premeditation; or 6. With cruelty, by deliberately and Inhumanly augmenting the suffering of the victim, or outraging or scoffing at his person or corpse. (As amended by RA No. 7659) |
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