1.   If convicted by the three-judge panel of premeditated murder, Amir faces life in prison.

2.   Premeditated murder carries the death sentence.

3.   The investigator said the killings were the result of poor procedure by trigger-happy police rather than premeditated murder.

4.   The maximum penalty for premeditated murder is death or life imprisonment.

5.   In a case of premeditated murder a life sentence is mandatory.

6.   A jury found Sweeney guilty of voluntary manslaughter rather than premeditated murder, and he served just under four years in prison.

7.   But to compare what NATO did to the premeditated murder of civilians is to engage, with imperfect hindsight, in a dangerous form of moral relativism.

8.   But Yigal Amir denied his act was premeditated murder, saying that he did not necessarily intend to kill Rabin.

9.   By itself, the premeditated murder of someone is not a capital offense in Texas.

10.   David Jones, a musician active in the community, said he believed in self-defense but not in allowing the state to commit premeditated murder.