Practice question
A person assists another’s suicide and personally performs the fatal killing at that person’s request. Which Article253 distinction is directly relevant?
- Assistance extending to doing the killing oneself has its own specified treatment
- The request always makes the act lawful
- The article covers only verbal advice
- A request converts the killing into theft
- The victim’s request automatically acquits the actor
Legal references
- Revised Penal Code relevant substantive provisions: https://lawphil.net/statutes/acts/act1930/act_3815_1930.html Articles253 and256–259.
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