Capital felony - murder of a police officer; murder f a child; serial murder (life without parole or death)
First degree felony - theft over 200,000; Murder; aggravated sexual assault (5-99 years)
Second degree felony - theft over 100,000; Burglary of a home, sexual assault (2-20 years)
Third degree felony - involuntary manslaughter; kidnapping; escape (2-10 years)
State jaily felony - theft over 1,500; auto theft forgery (180 days to 2 years)
In a purely hypothetical situation, I shoot my wife to death in our home in Sugar Land after thinking about it and planning it for several weeks. I took my .357 Magnum Smith&Wesson, loaded it with magnum-load, hollow-point bullets, and emptied all six rounds into her body (a rather brutal, painful, bloody murder). Based on that information, can I be sentenced to death for capital murder in Texas?
No, because my wife was not a police
officer nor a firefighter on duty; nor, before killing her, did I kidnap her, rob her, sexually assault her, commit arson to kill her, nor kill my neighbor who walked into the house just after I murdered my spouse... necessary elements under Texas law to trigger a capital murder (death penalty) charge against your professor (no lethal injection for me!)
Yes, because I murdered her
Yes, because it was a particularly heinous and premeditated murder Yes, because I killed him with a gun
Yes, simply because I committed murder
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