first-degree murder

English

Noun

first-degree murder (plural first-degree murders or -)

1. Template:countable An act of murder which is premeditated with malice aforethought.
2. Template:uncountable The crime of murder which is premeditated with malice aforethought.
   1. (deprecated template usage) The intentional causing, by a person, of the death of another person, including the inducement of the other person to commit suicide; or, when the other person is a child under 16, the infliction with criminal negligence of serious physical injury on the child by at least two separate acts, one of which results in the death; or, the taking of an action during the actual or attempted commission of, or flight following actual or attempted commission of, criminal mischief or terroristic threatening, which results in the death of a person who was not participating in the criminal mischief. [since circa 1978]
   2. (deprecated template usage) The causing of the death of a person with premeditated intent or by engaging, under circumstances manifesting an extreme indifference to human life, in conduct which creates grave risk of death, or the causing of the death of a non-participant during the actual or attempted commission of or flight following the actual or attempted commission of robbery, rape, burglary, arson, or kidnapping. [since circa 1975]
   3. (deprecated template usage) Murder committed by poison, ambush, or wilful, deliberate and premeditated killing, or committed during the actual or attempted commission of arson, sexual assault, robbery, or burglary.

Synonyms

• premeditated murder
• murder one

Related terms

• murder
• second-degree murder

Translations

premeditated murder

• Danish: mord (da) n
• French: homicide volontaire
• Norwegian: overlagt drap
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: предумышленное убийство n (predumýšlennoje ubíjstvo) (premeditated murder), убийство первой степени n (ubíjstvo pérvoj stépeni) (foreign context)