SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1331

88TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE SCHILLING.

Read 1st time January 25, 1996 and 1000 copies ordered printed.

DOUGLAS W. BURNETT, Chief Clerk

L3224.01I

AN ACT

To repeal section 565.020, RSMo 1994, relating to murder, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Section 565.020, RSMo 1994, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 565.020, to read as follows: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] such person 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] such person's sixteenth birthday at the time of the commission of the crime or is mentally retarded as defined in section 630.005, RSMo, the punishment shall be imprisonment for life without eligibility for probation or parole, or release except by act of the governor.