Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 265 § 1
Current through Chapters 1 to 249 and Chapters 253 to 255 of the 2024 Legislative Session
Murder committed with deliberately premeditated malice aforethought, or with extreme atrocity or cruelty, or in the commission or attempted commission of a crime punishable with death or imprisonment for life, is murder in the first degree. Murder which does not appear to be in the first degree is murder in the second degree. Petit treason shall be prosecuted and punished as murder. The degree of murder shall be found by the jury.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 265, § 1