- A person knowingly murders a peace officer or firefighter who is performing official duties, and the person knows the victim is an officer or firefighter.
- A person intentionally murders someone while committing or attempting kidnapping, burglary, robbery, aggravated sexual assault, arson, obstruction or retaliation, or certain terroristic threats.
- A person commits murder for payment or a promised payment, or hires someone else to commit murder for payment or a promised payment.
- A person commits murder while escaping or trying to escape from a penal institution.
- While incarcerated in a penal institution, a person murders an employee who works in its operation, or commits murder with the intent to establish, maintain, or participate in a criminal combination or its profits.
- While incarcerated for murder or capital murder, a person murders another person.
- While serving a life sentence or a 99-year sentence for aggravated kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault, or aggravated robbery, a person murders another person.
- A person murders more than one person in the same criminal transaction, or in separate transactions that are part of the same scheme or course of conduct.
- A person murders a victim younger than 10, or a victim who is at least 10 but younger than 15.
- A person murders a judge or justice in retaliation for, or because of, that personās service or status in a listed Texas court.
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