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SB 152 KY
Introduced

AN ACT relating to the abolition of the death penalty.

KY · session 2024RS · Senate · bill

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Introduced Jan 30, 2024

Latest action (Feb 1, 2024) to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)

Summary

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 KRS 532.030 to remove the death penalty; amend KRS 640.040 to prohibit life imprisonment without benefit of parole for a juvenile offender convicted of a capital offense; amend KRS 640.010 to define "serious intellectual disability" and "significant subaverage general intellectual functioning"; amend KRS 422.285, 532.050, 532.100, and 533.010 to conform; repeal KRS 431.213, 431.2135, 431.218, 431.220, 431.223, 431.224, 431.240, 431.250, 431.260, 431.270, 507A.060, 532.025, 532.075, 532.130, 532.135, 532.140, 532.300, 532.305, and 532.309.

Sponsors (2)
  • D. Yates · primary
  • R. Thomas Democratic · primary

Action history (3)
  1. Jan 30, 2024 introduced in Senate · upper
  2. Jan 30, 2024 to Committee on Committees (S) · upper
  3. Feb 1, 2024 to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S) · upper
Subjects
Corrections ImpactCourtsCrimes and PunishmentsCriminal ProcedureDeathsProbation and Parole

Text versions (1)

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  • Introduced · PDF

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