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Deliberate infliction of unnecessary suffering
Meaning and relationship to your legal situation.
What it means
Deliberately and inhumanely increasing the victim’s suffering through harm unnecessary to carry out the offence. This requires specific findings beyond the seriousness of the outcome alone.
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Spanish Criminal Code · art. 22
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