| DEFINITION |
(a) Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice
second degree. (b) Within the special maritime and territorial
jurisdiction of the United States. Whoever is guilty of murder
in the first degree, shall suffer death unless the jury qualifies
its verdict by adding thereto "without capital punishment", in
which event he shall be sentenced to imprisonment for life. Whoever
is guilty of murder in the second degree, shall be imprisoned for
any term of years or for life.
aforethought. Every murder perpetrated by poison, lying in wait,
or any other kind of willful, deliberate, malicious, and
premeditated killing; or committed in the perpetration of, or
attempt to perpetrate, any arson, escape, murder, kidnapping,
treason, espionage, sabotage, rape, burglary, or robbery; or
perpetrated from a premeditated design unlawfully and maliciously
to effect the death of any human being other than him who is killed,
is murder in the first degree. Any other murder is murder in the
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