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Question: What crimes can get the death penalty?
Answer: In Arizona the only crime that gets the death penalty is First Degree Murder.
There are two types of first degree murder;
1) premeditated murder, and
2) felony murder, which is a death which occurs while the accused is committing another offense, including sexual conduct with a minor, sexual assault (rape), child molest, certain drug offenses, kidnapping, burglary, arson, robbery, escape, child abuse, unlawful flight from law enforcement. Basically if you are in the process of committing one of the above crimes, and you cause the death of a person, you are guilty of first degree murder, for which you could receive the death penalty.
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