Explore: Aggravating Circumstances

the extent of injury to the victim, or the use of a deadly weapon. An aggravating circumstance is a kind of attendant circumstance and the opposite of

Murder with specified aggravating circumstances is often punished more harshly. Depending on the jurisdiction, such circumstances may include: Premeditation

phase of the trial. As such, they are formally distinct from aggravating circumstances, in that the latter are proven during the penalty phase of the

by five years to life in prison, and with the death penalty if aggravating circumstances are proven. The only exception is for juvenile offenders since

person, with at least one of the aggravating circumstances mentioned in § 211 sec.2 fulfilled. Those circumstances concern base motives, criminal aims

without permission and no aggravating circumstances apply. Article 209: Qualified theft (3 to 20 years) Aggravating circumstances (3 to 15 years): a) by

aggravating circumstances—such as having a prior sex crime conviction or employing torture during the crime. If one or more aggravating circumstances

statutory aggravating circumstances and three non-statutory aggravating circumstances. The jury unanimously found two statutory aggravating circumstances: Jones

unanimously finds that any potential aggravating factors listed in Missouri law outweigh any potential mitigating circumstances listed in Missouri law. Second-degree

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