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MS SB2646
Bill
AI Summary
- Amends Mississippi Code Section 99-19-101 to prohibit imposing the death penalty on individuals with mental retardation
- Defines mental retardation as significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning with concurrent defects in adaptive behavior manifested during the developmental period
- Requires jury to find during sentencing that defendant is not a person with mental retardation before death penalty can be imposed
- Effective July 1, 2011
Legislative Description
Death penalty; eliminate for persons who are mentally retarded.
Last Action
Died In Committee
2/1/2011
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