Summary+of+Offenses

__**Chapter 25 - Criminal Homicide**__

__**2501 - Criminal Homicide**__ A person is guilty of criminal homicide if they intentionally, knowingly, recklessly or negligently causes the death of another human being. And shall be classified as murder, voluntary manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter.

__**2502 - Murder**__ //1st Degree// - It is of the first degree if it is an intentional killing (Killing by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of willful, deliberate and premeditated killing.)

//2nd Degree// - A criminal homicide constitutes murder of the second degree when it is committed while the defendant was engaged as a principal or an accomplice in the perpetration of a felony.

//3rd Degree// - All other types of murder shall be of the third degree and be a felony of the 1st degree

__**2503 - Voluntary Manslaughter**__ The killing of an individual without lawful justification commits criminal homicide if at the time of the killing they are overcome by a sudden and intense passion resulting from the provocation from the person killed or another whom the actor endeavors to kill but accidently or negligently causes the death of the individual killed. It is also a felony of the first degree.

__**2504 - Involuntary Manslaughter**__ A person is guilty of involuntary manslaughter when as a direct result of the doing of an unlawful act in a reckless or grossly negligent manner, or the doing of a lawful act in a reckless or grossly negligent manner, he causes the death of another person. Is a misdemeanor of the 3rd degree and if the victim is under twelve years of age then it is considered a felony of the second degree.

__**2505 - Causing or aiding suicide**__ A person may be convicted of criminal homicide for causing another to commit suicide only if he intentionally causes such suicide by force, duress or deception. Also person who intentionally aids or solicits another to commit suicide is guilty of a felony of the second degree if his conduct causes such suicide or an attempted suicide, and otherwise of a misdemeanor of the second degree.

__**2506 - Drug delivery resulting in death**__ A person commits a felony of the first degree if the person intentionally administers, dispenses, delivers, gives, prescribes, sells or distributes any controlled substance or counterfeit controlled substance and another person dies as a result of using the substance. They shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment which shall be fixed by the court at not more than 40 years.

__**2507 - Criminal Homicide of law enforcement officer**__

//First Degree -// A person commits murder of a law enforcement officer of the first degree who intentionally kills a law enforcement officer while in the performance of duty knowing the victim is a law enforcement officer.

//Second Degree -// A person commits murder of a law enforcement officer of the second degree who engages as a principal or an accomplice in the perpetration of a felony during which a law enforcement officer is killed while in the performance of duty.