Shkoder

Blood revenge in modern Albania, is the legacy of the Kanun Code established by Prince Lek Dukagjini in the fifteenth century. It legitimize a relative of the victim to kill the author of the crime or a relative to the third degree of kinship among the male members of the family. Abolished during the dictatorship of Enver Hoxha, is back in vogue after the collapse of the regime, though no longer recognized by the current laws.