14-7022. Life imprisonment without possibility of release or parole proceeding; aggravating circumstances; murder for hire; essential elements.
The state has charged the aggravating circumstance of murder for hire.
Before you may find the aggravating circumstance of murder for hire, you must find that the state has proved to your satisfaction beyond a reasonable doubt that:
1. The murder of ________________________ (name of victim) was committed for hire; and
2. The defendant had the intent to kill.
USE NOTES
This instruction is to be used only in a life imprisonment without possibility of release or parole proceeding.
[As amended, effective August 1, 2001; as amended by Supreme Court Order No. 21-8300-008, effective for all cases filed or pending on or after December 31, 2021.]
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