Note 14 — Chapter XVII · THE KILLING OF PARENTS, SICK PERSONS, CHILDREN—FETICIDE
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Chauveau and Hélie, Théorie du Code Pénal, iii. 394 (France). Salvioli, Manuale di storia del diritto italiano, p. 570. In Scotland, also, parricide formerly had a place in the list of aggravated murders (Hume, Commentaries on the Law of Scotland, i. 459 sq.; for a sentence passed in 1688, see Pitcairn, Criminal Trials in Scotland, iii. 198); though nowadays it is penalised in the same way as other forms of murder (Erskine, Principles of the Law of Scotland, p. 559). There never was any special punishment for parricide in English law (Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, iv. 202. Stephen, History of the Criminal Law of England, iii. 95).