[1] Georgia has five different homicide offenses in total, including the three different types of murder.
It is punished by life in prison without the possibility of parole, life-with-parole after 30 years, or the death penalty.
[2][3][4] The death penalty for unintentional felony murder was abolished nationwide in 1982.
Second-degree murder is the newest homicide statute in Georgia law, being created in 2014.
It is defined as causing the death of another human being while committing second-degree child cruelty, irrespective of malice.