Femicide is a crime intimately related to power relations, in which a homicide is committed against a woman by the mere fact of being a woman, and is the direct consequence of sexist and misogynist social structures in which women do not consider as an equal before man. In Colombia, as a result of the terrible homicide of Rosa Elvira Cely, the law that bears her name was enacted and that typified the crime of femicide as an independent type, supported by a series of circumstances that are specific to these behaviors. Precisely at this point lies the legal difficulty for the realization of the sentences established in the Criminal Code for this crime, because the deep social origins of it have normalized, to which are added the special requirements of the type, which, on occasion, they do not allow many of the necessary conditions to be clearly established, they impede the accusations