Controlled Substances: Continuing Criminal Enterprise — Murder (CCE-Murder) is a type of federal charge for people who are involved in a drug enterprise that results in a death. CCE-Murder is a serious crime punishable by life in prison or the death penalty in the United States. The charge applies when someone is found to have deliberately organized, managed, or supervised a felony drug venture with five or more people and the venture has resulted in a death. The charge also applies if a person has participated in such a venture and the death was a foreseeable consequence of the venture. There are three types of CCE-Murder: murder, manslaughter, and second-degree murder. Murder is a premeditated killing, manslaughter is a killing without premeditation, and second-degree murder is an intentional killing in the heat of passion.