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AL SB106
Bill
Status
1/9/2018
Primary Sponsor
Hank Sanders
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AI Summary
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Amends Act 2017-131 of the 2017 Regular Session to apply retroactively to defendants previously sentenced to death.
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Requires defendants who received a death sentence from the court after a jury returned a life without parole verdict to be resentenced to life without parole.
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Removes the non-retroactivity provision from Act 2017-131, which had prohibited the court from overriding jury verdicts in capital cases.
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Applies prospectively to defendants charged with capital murder after the effective date of the act.
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Becomes effective immediately upon passage and approval by the Governor.
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
1/9/2018