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AL SB375

Bill

Official Source

Status

Introduced

4/20/2017

Primary Sponsor

Hank Sanders

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Origin

Senate

Regular Session 2017

AI Summary

  • Amends Act 2017-131 to apply retroactively to defendants who were sentenced to death when a jury returned a verdict of life without parole
  • Removes the original non-retroactivity clause that prevented the act from applying to defendants previously convicted and sentenced to death before the effective date
  • Requires any defendant sentenced to death by a court after a jury returned a life without parole verdict to be resentenced to life without parole under this act
  • Becomes effective immediately upon passage and approval by the Governor or upon becoming law

Legislative Description

Capital cases, judge not to override jury verdict of life without parole, Act 2017-131 made retroactive, Act 2017-131, 2017 Reg. Sess., am'd.

Death Penalty

Last Action

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Judiciary

4/20/2017

Committee Referrals

Judiciary4/20/2017

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