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  2. List of punishments for murder in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Second Degree Murder Minimum of 16 years in prison if downward departure is not granted Mandatory minimum of 25 years if firearm was used Maximum of life in prison without parole (eligible for parole after 25 years if the defendant was under 18) First Degree Murder Death or Life without parole

  3. Criminal sentencing in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This period is often between 1 and 3 years (on the short end) and 5–50 years on the upper end. The legislature generally sets a short, mandatory minimum sentence that an offender must spend in prison (e.g. one-third of the minimum sentence, or one-third of the high end of a sentence).

  4. Classes of offenses under United States federal law - Wikipedia

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    Maximum prison term [1] Maximum fine [2] [note 1] Probation term [3] [note 2] Maximum supervised release term [4] [note 3] Maximum prison term upon supervised release revocation [5] Special assessment [6] [note 4] Felony A Life imprisonment (or death in certain cases of murder, treason, espionage or mass trafficking of drugs) $250,000: 1-5 ...

  5. Capital Punishment, 2010 - Statistical Tables

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    intentional murder of a pregnant woman when it was known by the defendant that the victim was pregnant (Tenn. Code Ann § 39-13-204(i)(16)), effective July 1, 2010. Utah—Revised the minimum sentence required in capital felony cases in which the jury does not reach a unanimous decision to impose a death sentence. The minimum sentence

  6. United States Federal Sentencing Guidelines - Wikipedia

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    The Guidelines are the product of the United States Sentencing Commission, which was created by the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984. [3] The Guidelines' primary goal was to alleviate sentencing disparities that research had indicated were prevalent in the existing sentencing system, and the guidelines reform was specifically intended to provide for determinate sentencing.

  7. Murder in United States law - Wikipedia

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    The automatic sentence for murder in the second degree is life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years, if the defendant is over the age of 18. [122] If the defendant is a minor who was at least 15 years old at the time of the murder they are sentenced to life with the possibility of parole after 15 years. [121]

  8. New Hampshire man sentenced to minimum 56 years on murder ...

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    That sentence will be added on to the minimum 32 1/2-year sentence Adam Montgomery, 34, began last year on unrelated gun charges, effectively amounting to a life sentence following his actions in ...

  9. Why some states are reforming minimum sentencing ... - AOL

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