Context What effect does decriminalization? of domestic violence in Russia have on statistics of 'murder with excessive self-defense?' cases? How could these cases be related to the sex of the person being accused? Read more at http://108st.tilda.ws Content The data was parsed from sudact.ru and consists ??of 4388 law cases mentioning the article 108 of the Russian criminal code — murder with excessive self-defense. Acknowledgements This dataset was made with help of Nikita Girin, Elena Vavina, Ekaterina Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Ekaterina Palashina, Anna Starichikova, and Anastasia Kirgizova. Inspiration How do the cases differ by sex of the person being accused? For example, murder weapons, court's decisions, sentences, the person being murdered.