A person who willfully and maliciously administers or causes to be administered to or taken by a person, any poison, or other noxious or destructive substance or liquid, with the intention to cause the death of the person, and being thereof duly convicted, is guilty of a category A felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison:

1. 1. For life with the possibility of parole, with eligibility for parole beginning when a minimum of 5 years has been served; or
2. 2. For a definite term of 15 years, with eligibility for parole beginning when a minimum of 5 years has been served.

[1911 C&P § 139; RL § 6404; NCL § 10086]—(NRS A 1967, 471; 1995, 1188)