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AL SB106

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/9/2018

Primary Sponsor

Hank Sanders

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Origin

Senate

Regular Session 2018

AI Summary

  • Amends Act 2017-131 of the 2017 Regular Session to apply retroactively to defendants previously sentenced to death.

  • 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.

  • Removes the non-retroactivity provision from Act 2017-131, which had prohibited the court from overriding jury verdicts in capital cases.

  • Applies prospectively to defendants charged with capital murder after the effective date of the act.

  • 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

Committee Referrals

Judiciary1/9/2018

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