Article 323 Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE NINETEENTH. Crimes against life and bodily integrity · CHAPTER IV. Homicide by reason of kinship or relationship
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
To whoever deprives of life his consanguineous ascendant or descendant in the direct line, sibling, spouse, cohabitant, civil partner (female or male), common-law wife or common-law husband, adopter or adopted person, with knowledge of that relationship, there shall be imposed imprisonment of thirty to sixty years.
If such knowledge is lacking, the punishability provided in article 307 shall apply, without prejudice to observing any circumstance that aggravates or mitigates the penalty referred to in chapters II and III above.