A person who has reached the age of 16 commits a crime and shall bear criminal responsibility. Because he is under the age of 18, although he needs to be investigated for criminal responsibility, he should be given a lighter or mitigated punishment. According to Article 232 of the Criminal Law, those who intentionally kill people shall be sentenced to death, life imprisonment or fixed-term imprisonment of more than 10 years; If the circumstances are relatively minor, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years. At the same time, according to the provisions of Article 49 of the Criminal Law, people under the age of 18 at the time of committing crimes and women who are pregnant at the time of trial are not subject to the death penalty.
Therefore, the sentencing range for murder at the age of 17 is fixed-term imprisonment of more than three years and less than ten years, fixed-term imprisonment of more than ten years and life imprisonment. If there are circumstances such as confession, we must reconsider sentencing. If necessary, please comment and I will reply.