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AL SB30
Bill
Status
2/5/2013
Primary Sponsor
Hank Sanders
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AI Summary
SB30 Summary
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Removes death as a potential punishment for capital offenses in Alabama, making life imprisonment without parole the only sentencing option.
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Amends Sections 13A-5-39, 13A-5-43, 13A-5-44, and 15-18-100 of the Alabama Code to eliminate death penalty language and procedures.
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Repeals all statutes governing capital sentencing hearings and death penalty procedures, including Sections 13A-5-45 through 13A-5-53, 13A-5-55, 13A-5-59, and 15-18-80 through 15-18-86.
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Commutes all existing death sentences imposed before the effective date to life imprisonment without parole.
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Becomes effective immediately upon passage and approval by the Governor.
Legislative Description
Death penalty repealed, Secs. 13A-5-39, 13A-5-43, 13A-5-44, 15-18-100 am'd; Secs. 13A-5-45 to 13A-5-53, inclusive, 13A-5-55, 13A-5-59, 15-18-80 to 15-18-86, inclusive, repealed
Death Penalty
Last Action
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Judiciary
2/5/2013