Investigation of Murder Psychological Element in Iranian Law and its Comparison with Egyptian Law

PE is one of the constituents of a crime and is used with two broad and limited meaning by jurists. PE in intentional crimes has the limited meaning of commitment intention and penal fault. However, PE has the broad meaning of penal liability conditions in addition to its limited meaning. In Iranian law, murder crime is classified into intentional and unintentional murder based on PE and various types of murder have different punishments according to level of fault and blame. In Iranian legislation system, previous decision does not have any influence on punishment intensification and murder type and criminal titles of murder with previous decision and murder without previous decision have not been mentioned and predicted. In Egyptian law, previous decision is considered as the most important criterion for classification of various types of murder based on PE. Furthermore, criminal titles of murder with previous decision and murder without previous decision have been predicted such that punishment for murder with previous decision is more severe than other types of murder