Editing Crime of passion (section)

===Brazil===
{{Further|Women in Brazil|Domestic violence in Brazil}}
Killing of wives due to adultery has been traditionally treated very leniently in [[Brazil]], in court cases where husbands claimed the "legitimate defense of their honor" (''legitima defesa da honra'') as justification for the killing. Although this defense was not explicitly stipulated in the 20th-century Criminal Code, it has been successfully pleaded by lawyers throughout the 20th century, in particular in the countryside, though less so in the coastal big cities. In 1991 Brazil's Supreme Court explicitly rejected the "honor defense" as having no basis in Brazilian law.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/29/us/honor-killing-of-wives-is-outlawed-in-brazil.html|title='Honor' Killing of Wives Is Outlawed in Brazil|date=29 March 1991|work=The New York Times|access-date=15 February 2017|archive-date=9 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170209213050/http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/29/us/honor-killing-of-wives-is-outlawed-in-brazil.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.endvawnow.org/en/articles/738-decriminalization-of-adultery-and-defenses.html|title=Decriminalization of adultery and defenses|access-date=2014-05-27|archive-date=2014-04-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140410201544/http://www.endvawnow.org/en/articles/738-decriminalization-of-adultery-and-defenses.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/Diana/fulltext/nels.htm |title=The Defense of Honor: Is it Still Honored in Brazil? |access-date=2015-03-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150601004331/http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/Diana/fulltext/nels.htm |archive-date=2015-06-01 }}</ref>

In the 21st century, Brazil has improved the legal status of women, with the new Civil Code of 2002;<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-jan-12-fg-brazil12-story.html |title=Civil Code Corrects Gender Inequities in Brazil - Los Angeles Times |website=www.latimes.com |date=12 January 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121034537/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-jan-12-fg-brazil12-story.html |archive-date=2022-01-21 |url-status=}}</ref> and through other legal changes such as repealing in 2005 the provision that exempted a rapist from punishment if he married his victim,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.endvawnow.org/en/articles/738-decriminalization-of-adultery-and-defenses.html |title=Decriminalization of adultery and defenses |access-date=2021-11-19 |archive-date=2021-10-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029045225/https://www.endvawnow.org/en/articles/738-decriminalization-of-adultery-and-defenses.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and enacting laws against [[domestic violence in Brazil]].{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}