What is a "crime of passion?"

Answer by  technogeek (6640)

A crime of passion is one where you are so driven by your feelings for someone that you are willing to do anything, like killing your spouses lover.

Answer by  cafish (2035)

This means a crime committed in a fit of anger. There is no premeditation for the crime. It is done on the spur of the moment. If a person is called a racial slur and kills someone at that moment because of it, that is a crime of passion. Unfaithful lovers are often killed on the spur of the moment.