2013, No. 10 Crimes 49 (b) it did in fact deprive the defendant of the power of self-control and cause him or her to kill the deceased; and (c) the retaliation was reasonably proportionate to the act of provocation. (3) Despite subsection (2)(a) nothing done will be provocation unless the defendant: (a) feared serious violence from the person killed against the defendant or another identifiable person; or (b) the thing done constituted circumstances of a grave nature. (4) The fact alone of a statement from any person as to the sexual infidelity of the person killed despite the provisions of subsection (2)(a) is not to be evidence of provocation, but otherwise whether there is any evidence of provocation is a matter of law. (5) Any statement or word alone is not provocation that can reduce murder to manslaughter. 102. Manslaughter - Except as provided in section 110, culpable homicide not amounting to murder is manslaughter. 103. Punishment of murder - A person who commits murder shall upon conviction be sentenced to imprisonment for life. 104. Attempt to murder - A person who attempts to commit murder is liable to imprisonment for life. 105. Counselling or attempting to procure murder - A person is liable to imprisonment for life who incites, counsels, or attempts to procure any person to murder any other person in Samoa, when that murder is not in fact committed. 106. Conspiracy to murder-(1) A person is liable to imprisonment for life who conspires or agrees with any person to murder any other person, whether the murder is to take place in Samoa or another country.

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