Louisiana · Louisiana Revised Statutes — Title 14, Criminal Law
La. R.S. 14 § 14:30.1: Second degree murder
What this law says, in plain English
Second degree murder is the unlawful killing of a human being with specific intent to kill or cause great bodily harm, or while committing certain serious felonies, or by unlawfully distributing controlled substances that directly cause death. The penalty is life imprisonment at hard labor without parole.
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