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Idaho Code § 18-4003

Degrees of murder

Applied in 26 court decisions — leading case Enmund v. Florida (1982)

Most recently applied in Thomas Creech v. Tim Richardson (July 2022)

I.C., § 18-4003, as added by 1972, ch. 336, § 1, p. 844; am. 1973, ch. 276, § 1, p. 588; am. 1977, ch. 154, § 2, p. 390; am. 1991, ch. 227, § 1, p. 546; am. 2002, ch. 222, § 4, …

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(1) All murder which is perpetrated by means of poison, or lying in wait, or torture, when torture is inflicted with the intent to cause suffering, to execute vengeance, to extort something from the victim, or to satisfy some sadistic inclination, or which is perpetrated by any kind of willful, deliberate and premeditated killing is murder of the first degree.

(2) Any murder of any peace officer, executive officer, officer of the court, fireman, judicial officer or prosecuting attorney who was acting in the lawful discharge of an official duty, and was known or should have been known by the perpetrator of the murder to be an officer so acting, shall be murder of the first degree.

(3) Any murder committed by a person under a sentence for murder of the first or second degree, including such persons on parole or probation from such sentence, shall be murder of the first degree.

(4) Any murder committed in the perpetration of, or attempt to perpetrate, aggravated battery on a child under twelve (12) years of age, arson, rape, robbery, burglary, kidnapping or mayhem, or an act of terrorism, as defined in section 18-8102, Idaho Code, or the use of a weapon of mass destruction, biological weapon or chemical weapon, is murder of the first degree.

(5) Any murder committed by a person incarcerated in a penal institution upon a person employed by the penal institution, another inmate of the penal institution or a visitor to the penal institution shall be murder of the first degree.

(6) Any murder committed by a person while escaping or attempting to escape from a penal institution is murder of the first degree.

(7) All other kinds of murder are of the second degree.

Current official text: Idaho Statutes (Idaho Legislature). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Idaho statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.