A person who willfully and maliciously burns the building of another, or willfully and maliciously sets fire to a building owned in whole or in part by himself or herself, by means of which the life of a person is lost, shall be guilty of murder in the first degree.
Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 13, § 501
Arson causing death
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