Senate Bill 15

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Title AN ACT relating to the abolition of the death penalty.
Bill Documents Bill
Impact Statements Corrections Impact
Bill Request Number 19
Sponsors G. Neal, J. Adams, P. Clark, D. Harper Angel, R. Thomas
Summary of Original Version Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to abolish the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without parole for inmates presently sentenced to death; amend various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to eliminate the term "capital offense" and replace it with Class A felony; amend KRS 532.030, relating to authorized dispositions for felony offenses, to permit imprisonment for life without parole and imprisonment for life without parole for 25 years for offenses formerly denominated as capital offenses; amend KRS 533.010, relating to probation, to prohibit probation for a person sentenced to life without parole or life without parole for 25 years; amend KRS 640.040, relating to penalties for juveniles convicted of felony offenses, to authorize imprisonment for life without benefit of parole for 25 years, but not life imprisonment without benefit of parole, for a Class A felony which was formerly a capital offense; repeal various statutes relating to imposition of the death penalty.
Index Headings of Original Version Corrections Impact - Death penalty, replace with life imprisonment without parole
Courts - Death penalty, replace with life imprisonment without parole
Crimes and Punishments - Death penalty, replace with life imprisonment without parole
Criminal Procedure - Death penalty, replace with life imprisonment without parole
Deaths - Death penalty, replace with life imprisonment without parole

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07/16/14
  • Prefiled by the sponsor(s).
08/07/14
  • To: Interim Joint Committee on Judiciary
01/06/15
  • introduced in Senate
02/03/15
  • to Judiciary (S)


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