Crimes: murder.

Existing law prohibits the unlawful killing of a human being, or a fetus, with malice aforethought. Under existing law, killing under certain circumstances including premeditation, lying in wait, by poison or torture, or during the commission of specified dangerous felonies, is classified as murder in the first degree. Murder in the first degree is punishable by death, imprisonment in the state prison for life without the possibility of parole, or imprisonment in the state prison for a term of 25 years to life. If certain special circumstances are found to be true, including that the victim was a peace officer, firefighter, prosecutor, judge, witness, or elected official, that the defendant murdered more than one person, or the murder was committed for financial gain, the penalty is death or imprisonment in the state prison for life without the possibility of parole. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.