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[CITE: 18USC1111]
TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART I--CRIMES
CHAPTER 51--HOMICIDE
Sec. 1111. Murder
(a) Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice
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,
aggravated sexual abuse or sexual abuse, child abuse, burglary, or
robbery; or perpetrated as part of a pattern or practice of assault or
torture against a child or children; 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 second degree.
(b) Within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the
United States,
Whoever is guilty of murder in the first degree shall be punished by
death or by imprisonment for life;
Whoever is guilty of murder in the second degree, shall be
imprisoned for any term of years or for life.
(c) For purposes of this section--
(1) the term ``assault'' has the same meaning as given that term
in section 113;
(2) the term ``child'' means a person who has not attained the
age of 18 years and is--
(A) under the perpetrator's care or control; or
(B) at least six years younger than the perpetrator;
(3) the term ``child abuse'' means intentionally or knowingly
causing death or serious bodily injury to a child;
(4) the term ``pattern or practice of assault or torture'' means
assault or torture engaged in on at least two occasions;
(5) the term ``serious bodily injury'' has the meaning set forth
in section 1365; and
(6) the term ``torture'' means conduct, whether or not committed
under the color of law, that otherwise satisfies the definition set
forth in section 2340(1).