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MO SB591

Bill

Official Source

Status

Introduced

1/6/2010

Primary Sponsor

Joan Bray

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Origin

Senate

2010 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Repeals all Missouri statutes authorizing capital punishment and execution procedures, effectively abolishing the death penalty in the state
  • Changes the maximum punishment for murder in the first degree to life imprisonment without eligibility for probation or parole, except by act of the governor
  • Requires automatic commutation of any existing death sentences to life imprisonment without parole eligibility
  • Eliminates the two-stage trial process for capital cases and returns to single-stage trials for guilt and punishment determination
  • Removes statutory aggravating and mitigating circumstance provisions that were specific to death penalty cases

Legislative Description

Eliminates the death penalty

Last Action

Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

1/13/2010

Committee Referrals

Judiciary And Civil And Criminal Jurisprudence1/13/2010

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