HB 4005 Summary

• Eliminates the death penalty as punishment for capital felonies in Florida, replacing it with life imprisonment without parole eligibility

• Repeals sections of Florida law relating to capital punishment procedures, including statutes governing death warrants, executions, and capital sentencing determinations

• Deletes provisions for capital collateral representation and related legal proceedings that were specific to death penalty cases

• Amends sentencing statutes for crimes that were previously capital felonies (murder, sexual battery of children under 12, certain drug trafficking) to provide life imprisonment as the maximum sentence

• Takes effect July 1, 2013