Females with mental or physical impairments are more likely to be victims and easier to get rid of. Penal code 340 discriminates between men and women. For instance, a lady cannot kill her husband if she knows he is sexually involved with another female. This is the opposite for a man who kills his female relative. In specific, Articles 97 and 98 should be amended as these are the articles used by the courts to give lighter sentences for men guilty of committing these crimes.
Women receive the death sentence and get no support from the court, their families or their society.
Whereas if a man is the killer, the family will pay his compensation and his punishment will automatically be decreased by half. But no one pays for women and those who do kill their husbands are usually poor in the first place. The first hotline was created in 1994 and now there is more than one. There is a small shelter and there is a new project to construct a large one in the future. No, there has not been a significant increase in honor crimes.