In AS 11.41.100 - 11.41.140 “person”, when referring to the victim of a crime, means a human being who has been born and was alive at the time of the criminal act. A person is “alive” if there is spontaneous respiratory or cardiac function or, when respiratory and cardiac functions are maintained by artificial means, there is spontaneous brain function.
Structure Alaska Statutes
Chapter 41. Offenses Against the Person
Sec. 11.41.100. Murder in the first degree.
Sec. 11.41.110. Murder in the second degree.
Sec. 11.41.115. Defenses to murder.
Sec. 11.41.130. Criminally negligent homicide.
Sec. 11.41.135. Multiple deaths.
Sec. 11.41.150. Murder of an unborn child.
Sec. 11.41.160. Manslaughter of an unborn child.
Sec. 11.41.170. Criminally negligent homicide of an unborn child.