Nevada Second-Degree Murder

Code Section

Murder in the First Degree

• During the perpetration (or attempted perpetration) of sexual assault, kidnapping, arson, robbery, burglary, invasion of the home, sexual abuse of a child, sexual molestation of a child who is less than 14 years old, child abuse, or abuse of an older or vulnerable person
• To avoid being arrested or to escape from legal custody
• At a school, a school sponsored activity, or on a school bus by a person who intended to create a great risk of death or substantial bodily harm to more than one person via a weapon, device, or action that would normally be hazardous to the lives of more than one person, or
• In the perpetration (or attempted perpetration) of an act of terrorism

Murder of the second degree is all other kinds of murder.

Penalties

• For life with the possibility of parole (eligibility for parole beginning when a minimum of 10 years have been served), or
• For 25 years (with eligibility for parole beginning when a minimum of 10 years has been served)