HB 6061 - Death Penalty Abolition Summary

• Eliminates capital punishment: Deletes provisions authorizing the death penalty for capital felonies in Florida, replacing it with life imprisonment without parole eligibility.

• Removes capital prosecution infrastructure: Repeals sections establishing capital collateral regional counsel offices, specialized death penalty appeal procedures, and related representation requirements.

• Eliminates execution procedures: Repeals statutes governing warrants of execution, stays of execution, insanity/pregnancy determinations for condemned inmates, and execution regulations.

• Updates sentencing structures: Renumbers and conforms sentencing provisions throughout Florida law to remove death penalty references and adjust subsection numbering in penalty statutes.

• Effective immediately: Takes effect upon becoming law with no grandfather clause, applying the changes to all cases prospectively.