                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

HOW PRINCIPALS IN SECOND DEGREE AND ACCESSORIES BEFORE THE FACT PUNISHED (§
18.2-18)

In the case of every felony, every principal in the second degree and every
accessory before the fact may be indicted, tried, convicted and punished in all
respects as if a principal in the first degree; provided, however, that except
in the case of a killing for hire under the provisions of subdivision A 2 of §
18.2-31 or a killing pursuant to the direction or order of one who is engaged in
a continuing criminal enterprise under the provisions of subdivision A 10 of §
18.2-31 or a killing pursuant to the direction or order of one who is engaged in
the commission of or attempted commission of an act of terrorism under the
provisions of subdivision A 13 of § 18.2-31, an accessory before the fact or
principal in the second degree to an aggravated murder shall be indicted, tried,
convicted and punished as though the offense were murder in the first degree.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 18.1-11; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1977, c. 478;
1997, c. 313; 2002, cc. 588, 623; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, cc. 344, 345.