Virginia Homicide & Murder Defense
§ 18.2-31 (Capital Murder) & § 18.2-32 (1st & 2nd Degree) • D.J. Rivera, Esq.
Murder, other than capital murder, is a Class 2 felony. Murder in the second degree is a Class 3 felony. Capital murder is punishable as a Class 1 felony.
The willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing of any person in the commission of abduction, robbery, rape, sodomy, object sexual penetration, or other enumerated offenses, or the killing of a law-enforcement officer, firefighter, or multiple victims, among other circumstances.