Some people might even try to call it first degree murder.

Johnson was tried for first degree murder and found not guilty.

He was tried and convicted of first degree murder that fall.

Katherine was convicted of first degree murder four or five years later.

Several years later, Raymond was convicted of first degree murder in a different case.

He was acquitted of first degree murder charges in 1992.

Convicted later that year of first degree murder and sentenced to death.

A hung jury could not decide on the first degree murder charge.

The only possible sentence for first degree murder is life in prison without parole.

Brown, who had fired the shotgun, was charged with first degree murder.

"Of course, she's charged with first degree murder, and there's some circumstances in the case that don't look so good."

She was found guilty of first degree murder and sentenced to death by hanging.

She was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to 20 years in prison.

I think he'd prosecute either for first degree murder, or not at all."

But premeditation is only necessary to a charge of first degree murder.

The two buyers have been charged by a grand jury with first degree murder.

They faced life in prison if convicted of the first degree murder charges.

"Weren't you surprised he never filed the first degree murder accusation?"

All right, a prosecutor probably couldn't make a charge of first degree murder stick in criminal court.

She was charged with first degree murder, which carried an automatic death sentence.

Sam Smith was charged with first degree murder and hanged.

Police charged a 14-year-old boy, with first degree murder.

On August 21, the jury found him guilty of kidnapping and first degree murder.

She was charged with first degree murder in October 2008 and pleaded not guilty.

Before the governor signed the bill only first degree murder was a capital offense in the state of Maryland.