Article 82 — General Extenuating Circumstances.

(1) The Court shall reduce the penalty, within the limits allowed by law (Art. 179), in the following cases: (a) when the criminal who previously of good character acted without thought or by reason of lack of intelligence, ignorance or simplicity of mind; (b) when the criminal was prompted by an honourable and disinterested motive or by a high religious, moral or civil conviction; (c) when he acted in a state of great material or moral distress or under the apprehension of a grave threat or a justified fear, or under the influence of a person to whom he owes obedience or upon whom he depends; (d) when he was led into grave temptation by the conduct of the victim or was carried away by wrath, pain or revolt caused by a serious provocation or an unjust insult or was at the time of the act in a justifiable state of violent emotion or mental distress; (e) when he manifested a sincere repentance for his acts after the crime, in particular by affording succour to his victim, recognizing his fault or delivering himself up to the authorities, or by repairing, as far as possible, the injury caused by his crime, or when he on being charged, admits every ingredient of the crime stated on the criminal charge. (2) When the law, In a special provision of the Special Part, has taken one of these circumstances into consideration as a constituent element or as a factor of extenuation of a privileged crime, the Court may not at the same time allow for the same circumstance to reduce the penalty applicable thereto.