[r9etb]

The law was changed in Italy 25 years ago, but it does go to show that such attitudes aren’t all that far in the past of some “Christian” nations.

Indeed, until 1974, in Texas it was considered "justifiable homicide" in some cases to kill you wife if you caught her in the act of infidelity.

[Sherman Logan]

I would contend that such a reaction in the heat of the moment is somewhat different from the premeditated killing of a sister or daughter to “cleanse the family’s honor.”