Explore: Premeditation (law)

First-degree murder constitutes the intentional killing of a person with premeditation. For adult offenders, it is punished by either the death penalty or

aforethought in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Malice aforethought is the "premeditation" or "predetermination" (with malice) required as an element of some

committed under one of the following circumstances: Committed with premeditation or lying in wait Committed with torture of the victim Committed by means

is defined as either an intentional killing of another person with premeditation, or the killing of a person during the perpetration or attempted perpetration

in Colorado, those being: Intentionally killing another person with premeditation Committing perjury leading to an innocent person's execution Causing

serious bodily harm to that person. Because lying in wait involves premeditation, some jurisdictions have established that lying in wait is considered

the commission of a predicate felony regardless of actual intent or premeditation, called felony murder. This offense is categorized as capital offense

he was found guilty of four counts of first-degree murder under premeditation laws in the state of California. The jury further determined that he should

destructive cyclone, epidemic, or any other public calamity; With evident premeditation; With cruelty, by deliberately and inhumanly augmenting the suffering

embezzlement (intent to defraud), first degree premeditated murder (premeditation), false pretenses (intent to defraud), forgery (intent to defraud),