Qualifying features of murder according to criminal laws of lithuania and other countries

The title of the master‘s thesis is „The qualifying features of murder according to criminal laws of Lithuania and other countries“, therefore the core aim of this work is to disclose the qualifying features of murder provided in criminal codes of the Republic of Lithuania and other countries, invoking comparative method. In order to thoroughly disclose the features of the qualified murder, the juridical reglamentation of this crime is examined in the paper - the conception of murder is discussed in the first part of the paper, afterwards, legal sources that had influence on the development of the present qualified murder content construction in valid criminal laws of the Republic of Lithuania, France, Federation of Germany and Russia are analyzed. As the qualified content of murder includes the main content of murder, the general content of this crime is described in the third part of the paper analyzing objective and subjective features. The analysis of the qualifying features is presented in the greater part of the work where according to the valid criminal laws of the chosen countries, scholarly literature and the practice of courts, every qualifying feature of murder is examined comparing it with the criminal laws of the chosen countries