SB248 Summary

• Removes death as a potential punishment for capital offenses, making life imprisonment without parole the only available sentence.

• 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 related sentencing procedures.

• Repeals multiple sections of Alabama law governing capital sentencing hearings, jury procedures, and death penalty appeals (Sections 13A-5-45 through 13A-5-53, 13A-5-55, 13A-5-59, and 15-18-80 through 15-18-86).

• Commutes all existing death sentences imposed prior to the effective date of this act to life imprisonment without parole.

• Becomes effective immediately upon passage and gubernatorial approval or upon otherwise becoming law.