If a Fugitive Were to Turn Himself Back In, Would He Have the Death Penalty?
Question by Conker: If a fugitive were to turn himself back in, would he have the death penalty?
Lets say he escaped charges, and he was found or turned himself in. Would his punishment be the death penalty?
Best answer:
Answer by Megan
Alabama – Intentional murder with 18 aggravating factors
Arizona – First-degree murder, including pre-meditated murder and felony murder, accompanied by at least 1 of 14 aggravating factors
Arkansas – Capital murder with a finding of at least 1 of 10 aggravating circumstances; treason.
California – First-degree murder with special circumstances; sabotage; train wrecking causing death; treason; perjury causing execution of an innocent person; fatal assault by a prisoner serving a life sentence.
Colorado – First-degree murder with at least 1 of 17 aggravating factors; first-degree kidnapping resulting in death; treason.
Connecticut – [Abolished the death penalty in 2012]
Delaware – First-degree murder with at least 1 statutory aggravating circumstance
Florida – First-degree murder; felony murder; capital drug trafficking; capital sexual battery.
Georgia – Murder with aggravating circumstances; kidnapping with bodily injury or ransom when the victim dies; aircraft hijacking; treason.
Idaho – First-degree murder with aggravating factors; first-degree kidnapping; perjury resulting in the execution of an innocent person.
Illinois – [Abolished the death penalty in 2011]
Indiana – Murder with 16 aggravating circumstances.
Kansas – Capital murder with 8 aggravating circumstances
Kentucky – Capital murder with the presence of at least one statutory aggravating circumstance; capital kidnapping
Louisiana – First-degree murder; treason
Maryland – [Abolished the death penalty in 2013]
Mississippi – Capital murder; aircraft piracy
Missouri – First-degree murder
Montana – Capital murder with 1 of 9 aggravating circumstances aggravated kidnapping; felony murder; aggravated sexual intercourse without consent
Nebraska – First-degree murder with a finding of at least 1 statutorily-defined aggravating circumstance.
Nevada – First-degree murder with at least 1 of 15 aggravating circumstances
New Hampshire – Murder committed in the course of rape, kidnapping, drug crimes, or burglary; killing of a police officer, judge or prosecutor; murder for hire; murder by an inmate while serving a sentence of life without parole
New York* – [New York abolished the death penalty in 2007]
North Carolina – First-degree murder with the finding of at least 1 of 11 statutory aggravating circumstances
Ohio – Aggravated murder with at least 1 of 10 aggravating circumstances
Oklahoma – First-degree murder in conjunction with a finding of at least 1 of 8 statutorily-defined aggravating circumstances.
Oregon – Aggravated murder
Pennsylvania – First-degree murder with 18 aggravating circumstances.
South Carolina – Murder with 1 of 12 aggravating circumstances
South Dakota – First-degree murder with 1 of 10 aggravating circumstances.
Tennessee – First-degree murder with 1 of 16 aggravating circumstances
Texas – Criminal homicide with 1 of 9 aggravating circumstances
Utah – Aggravated murder .
Virginia – First-degree murder with 1 of 15 aggravating circumstances
Washington – Aggravated first-degree murder.
Wyoming – First-degree murder; murder during the commission of sexual assault, sexual abuse of a minor, arson, robbery, burglary, escape, resisting arrest, kidnapping, or abuse of a minor under 16.
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