The felony of murder has been one of the worst criminal felonies since Hamurabis law. It consists in taking away the life of another person. The perpetrator can be just a person, and the object alo can be just another person. According to Croatian criminal law there are murder of first degree for which prescribes a prison sentence ranging from 5 years to 20 and murder of second degree which is committed with qualifications, to brutal a murderous way of killing a person who is particularly vulnerable to age, physical or mental disability, a person who has already been abused, and for these criminal offenses are prescribed prison sentence in the range from 21 to 40 years or if it is made by juncture offences up to 50 years. Some criminal laws still have in their criminal law's system for the murder felony as the most difficult a death penalty. The death penalty was also prescribed in the Criminal law system of Croatia while still part of the SFRY, but it was abrogation by the independence of the Republic of Croatia. The criminal law also contains provisions on the criminal offenses of murder that are designated as privileged and a lower penalty is prescribed for them. It is about killing for which a sentence of one to ten years is prescribed, a murder that's commited just few moments after some argue or instant murders will be punished of six months to five years, and suicide where a person commits another person to suicide or he or she may receive a prison sentence of up to three years. Court practice all the difficulties of understanding the legal provisions best shows through rectification the decision of the first-instance courts, which is best seen in the case of Dragan Paravinnja where the Supreme Court abolished the decisions of the first instance courts three times so that could make a own decision.