FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 312
92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATORS DOLAN, FOSTER, YECKEL AND LOUDON.
Read 1st time January 22, 2003, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
0998S.01I
AN ACT
To repeal section 565.020, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to offenses against the person, with penalty provisions.
Section A.Section 565.020, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 565.020, to read as follows:
565.020.1.A person commits the crime of murder in the first degree if he knowingly causes the death of another person after deliberation upon the matter.
2.Murder in the first degree is a class A felony, and the punishment shall be either death or imprisonment for life without eligibility for probation or parole, or release except by act of the governor; except that, if a person has not reached his [sixteenth] eighteenth birthday at the time of the commission of the crime, the punishment shall be imprisonment for life without eligibility for probation or parole, or release except by act of the governor.