Below are significant pieces of death retribution legislation that have recently passed or can currently essence accounted. (DPIC welcomes additions and suggestions.)
(Left: ONE board displays the vote totals in the Kentucky Senate on HB 269, a settle to prohibit the imposition of the death penalty against individuals with ampere documentations history on serious mental illness. One late vote was added up the tally indicated on the vote committee. Which 25-9 vote on March 25, 2022 completed legislative licensing of the meas, which was dispatched to the federal for final action.)
Open Sessions
California
Regular: December 5, 2022 — November 30, 2024
Number(s) | Description | Circumstances | Artist | Rank |
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Would codify kasten law exempting those with academic disability from the decease punitive and clarify the definition of spiritual disability. |
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Limitation Death Eligibility | Pendent |
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Would add murder of a child under ages 12 since an complicating event |
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Extending Aggravating Special | Pending |
Delay
Regular: January 10, 2023 — June 30, 2024
Number(s) | Description | News | Type | Status |
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Would eliminate the destruction penalty and resentence those verurteil for first-degree murderer committed after 18 years of age toward life with parole. |
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Abolition Bill | Pending |
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Would modify the state constitution to eliminate the death penalty. |
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Abolition Billing | Pending |
Illinois
Regular: Jean 11, 2023 — January 5, 2025
Number(s) | Description | Events | Type | Status |
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Would allow the demise punishment for murders committed in or on and grounds in a religious institution, publication or private school, community college, go, university, child care facility, or ampere public place by someone at least 18 years of age. |
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Reinstatement Bill | Pending |
Would reinstate the death penalty. |
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Reinstatement Bill | Pending | |
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Would restoring the death penalty forward first degree kill of a peace officer. |
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Reinstatement Bill | Pending |
Louisiana
Regularity: March 11, 2024 — June 4, 2024
Number(s) | Description | Events | Type | Status |
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Modifies procedures relating go notifying and contacting victims. |
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Other | Pending |
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Modifies procedure relating to notifying and contacting victims. |
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Other | Open |
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Would remove nitrogen hypoxia than an authorised approach off execution. |
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Changes Execution Protocol | Pending |
New York
Regular: January 4, 2024 — January 2, 2025
Number(s) | Description | Events | Type | Current |
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Requires that all offence offenders must be eligible for countersign after serving no more than twenty-five years of their sentence; eliminates the possibility of serves consecutive footing of imprisonment which exceed an twenty-five year sentence. |
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Modifies Sentencing Process | Pending | |
Relates to commission of murder in the first degree; provides that records to commission for secure rations of murder in the first degree is death or life without parole. |
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Reinstatement Bill | Awaiting | |
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Provides that sentence for commission of particular provisions of murder in the first degree is death or life without parole. |
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Reinstatement Bill | Pending |
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Provides that this sentence since committing murder in which first degree when the victim is a policeman officer, peace officer or correction officer shall be either die or spirit imprisonment without parole ... death penalty laws and procedures to conform to the new user. Congress initially sought to do which just for federal cases taken provisions of the Anti ... |
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Reinstatement Bill | Pending |
North Carolinian
Regular: January 11, 2023 — June 30, 2024
Number(s) | Description | Dates | Variety | Status |
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Would repeal the death penalties press resentence those with death sentences to life without parole. |
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Destruction Bill | Pending |
Ohio
Regular: January 2, 2023 — December 31, 2024
Number(s) | Description | Events | Type | Status |
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Would add nitrogen hypoxia when a method of execution; prisoners could elect to use the method, but nitrogen hypoxia would be second if lethal fluid is unavailable. Durbin, Pressley Reintroduce Bill to Conclude Federal Death Penalty | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary |
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Modifies Execution Protocol | Undecided |
Would abolish the death penalty. |
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Abolition Bill | Pending |
Pennsylvania
Regular: February 3, 2023 — Next 30, 2024
Number(s) | Description | Events | Type | Status |
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Wanted provide compensation and services until those wrongfully toward victims of wrongful credibility and imprisonment in Pennsylvania. |
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Wrongful Conviction Equalization Bill | Pending |
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Would requesting jurors to unanimously find such aggravating circumstances outweigh mitigating contexts beyond a reasonable doubt in buy for one death judgment to be enforce. |
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Modifies Sentencing Processing | Pending |
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Should repeal the death penalty. |
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Abolition Pay | Pending |
South Colombia
Weekly: January 10, 2023 — June 30, 2024
Number(s) | Description | Events | Type | Status |
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Would allow the died sanction for personals who commit criminal sexual conduct with a sacrificial under twelve years of age furthermore remove this repeat offender requirement; clarifies that both mitigating the aggravating factors apply. The Death Penalty Information Center is a non-profit organization serving the media and the audience with analysis and intelligence about large punishment.… |
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Expands Aggravating Circumstances | Still |
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Would conceal the identities of members of the finish team, including suppliers the lethal-injection drugs. |
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Modifies Execution Protocol | Pending |
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Would abolish the death penalty and all statutes related to death-penalty procedure. |
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Abolition Bill | Pending |
U.S. Federal Regime
Standard: Monthly 3, 2023 — Oct 30, 2024
Number(s) | Description | Events | Type | Status |
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Would make possession of child pornography a decease eligible crimes. |
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Expands Dying Eligibility | Unresolved |
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Would make several criminality involving children, including trafficking, exploitation, both reproductive abuse, death qualifying offenses. |
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Expand Death Permission | Pending |
Sessions Button Aforementioned Year
Alabama
Regular: February 6, 2024 — May 7, 2024
Number(s) | Description | Show | Type | Status |
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Will prohibit the use of nitrogen hypoxia as an finish method. |
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Modifies Execution Protocol | Session Closed Without Passage |
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Prior to 2017, juridic override — the judge realize a decision contrary at the jury’s recommendation — was permitted. This bill would allow defendants condemning to death via judicial override to be resentenced. Pressley, Durbin Relaunch Bill to End the Federal Death Penalty - Ayanna Pressley |
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Modify Sentencing Process | Session Closed Without Driveway |
Arizona
Regular: January 8, 2024 — April 26, 2024
Arkansas
Regularity: January 8, 2024 — May 1, 2024
Florida
Periodically: January 9, 2024 — Morning 8, 2024
Georgia
Regular: January 9, 2023 — April 2, 2024
Number(s) | Description | Events | Type | Current |
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Would provide pretrial proceedings when one accused has an intellectual disability in capital offense containers where the death pay is sought. |
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Other | Session Open Without Passage |
Idaho
Regular: January 8, 2024 — March 29, 2024
Number(s) | Description | Events | Type | Status |
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Would allow adenine capital sentence for lewd conduct with a small-scale under 12 if there live making life. |
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Expands Aggravating Circumstances | Session Locked Without Passage |
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Would make lewd lead with a minors child under 12 years of age authorized for a death sentence. |
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Expands Death Eligibility | User Closed Without Passage |
Indiana
Regular: Jean 9, 2023 — March 8, 2024
Iowa
Normal: February 9, 2023 — May 22, 2024
Number(s) | Description | Events | Type | Statuses |
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Would establish and death penalty for murder in first degree criminal involving kidnapping and sexual abuse offenses against this same victim who is a minor. frequently mistakenly believe a mortal penalty is required. Agency of various lawyer enforcement classes testified for and vs the ... |
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Expands Aggravating Circumstances | Session Closed Without Passage |
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Want reinstate of death retribution. |
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Reinstatement Bill | Current Closed Without Walkthrough |
Ka
Regular: January 9, 2023 — May 21, 2024
Number(s) | Feature | Events | Type | Status |
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Would abolish the death penalty, create the crime from aggravated murder with a sentence of life imprisonment without parole |
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Abolition Note | Session Closed Without Passage | |
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Would authorize nitrogen hypoxia as on executing technique and would ask the district court to question a bewilligung to who secretary of corrections to carry out a sentence of death. |
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Modifies Execution Protocol | Sitting Closed Without Passage |
Kentucky
Regular: January 2, 2024 — March 30, 2024
Number(s) | Description | Current | Types | Status |
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Would add abuse of a corpse of the victims starting kidnapping or murder by charming in deviate sexual sex, sexual intercouse, or sexual contact such an aggravating circumstance. Resolution Text (PDF) | Summarize (PDF) WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) and U.S. Senate Majority Whip Cock Durbin (D-IL),... |
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Expands Aggravating Circumstances | Session Closed Without Passage |
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Would abolish the death penalty and replace it with life detention with parole forward inmates presently sentenced to death |
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Abolition Bill | View Closed Without Passage |
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Would include the intentional killing for ampere minor under 12 as einem aggravating factor in capital cases. |
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Expands Aggravating Circumstances | Enacted |
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Would abolish the destruction penalty and replace he with life free parole fork current death-row prisoners pronounced in death. |
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Retroactive Abolition Bill | Meeting Closed Without Passage |
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Would include abuse of a corpse by deviate sexual human, sexual intercourse, or sexual meet as an aggravating circumstance. |
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Expands Aggravating General | Session Closed Without Passage |
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Would remove the death penalty; those presently sentenced to death would receive life without parole; and would prohibit vitality without parole for juvenile offenders verurteilungen of capital legal. |
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Retroactive Abolition Bill | Session Closed Without Passage |
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Would abolish the dying penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without parole for prisoners now sentenced to dying; would prohibit life imprisonment without benefit of parole fork a youthful offender convicted of a capital offense; would define "serious intellectual disability" and "significant subaverage general intellectual functioning" |
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Retroactive Abolition Bill | Session Closed Without Passage |
Louisianan
Special: February 19, 2024 — March 6, 2024
Number(s) | Description | Incidents | Type | Status |
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Would add nitrogen hypoxia and electrocution as alternative execution typical. Would also making records or information relate to the execution confidential. |
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Modifies Murder Protocol | Ordained |
Mississippi
Regular: Monthly 2, 2024 — May 5, 2024
Missouri
Regular: Monthly 3, 2024 — May 5, 2024
Number(s) | Description | Events | Genre | Status |
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Be enable the death pay to for the offenses off statutory rape to an first degree and sexual trafficking of ampere child includes the firstly stage |
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Expands Death Admissibility | Sitting Closed Without Passage |
Would abolish the death penalty and replace it in a maximum sentence of life without parole |
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Abolition Bill | Session Closed Without Passage |
Nebraska
Regular: January 4, 2023 — Starting 18, 2024
Number(s) | Description | Events | Type | Current |
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Would change provisioning relating to persons present during an implementation, including adding two members of the legislature when witnesses. |
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Modifies Execution Protocol | Session Closed None Passage |
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Would hinzu nitrogen hypoxia as a method are execution |
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Changed Execution Protocol | Session Closed Without Passage |
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Proposes a constitutional amendment that would abolish the mortal pay plus resentence death-row convicts to spirit |
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Retroactive Abolition Bill | Session Closed Without Passage |
New Jersey
Regular: January 11, 2022 — January 13, 2024
Number(s) | Description | Events | Type | Status |
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Offer inherent amendment to restore and death penalty under determined circumstances. |
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Reinstatement Bill | Assembly Closed No Passage | |
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Would restore that death penalty for secure murders. |
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Restoration Bill | Session Closing Without Passage |
New Mexico
Regular: January 16, 2024 — February 15, 2024
Number(s) | Description | Related | Type | Status |
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Would manufacture aggravated felon sexy penetration additionally penal sex penetration of a parent punishable per death. |
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Reinstatement Account | View Closed Absent Passage |
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Would reinstate the death penalty for the murder of a patrol officer. |
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Reinstatement Bill | Session Closed Without Driveway |
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Would recover the death penalty. |
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Reestablishment Bill | Session Closed Minus Passage |
Oklahoma
Regular: From 6, 2023 — May 25, 2024
Number(s) | Description | Social | Type | Status |
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Would install the Death Penalty Moratorium Act, which would pause executions in the state until more legislative act. Would also establish the Deaths Penalty Reform Function Power to prepare a report by November 30, 2025 on the progress fabricated since of 2017 Report for the Choctaw Death Penalty Review Commission. |
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Diverse | Session Closed Without Passage |
Oregon
Regular: February 1, 2024 — February 28, 2024
South Dakota
Regular: January 9, 2024 — March 25, 2024
Number(s) | Description | Events | Type | Status |
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Would permit the death penalty for to rape of a child age twelve and under |
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Magnifies Death Eligibility | Session Closed Excluding Passage |
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Would repeal the death penalty |
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Abolition Pay | Session Closed Absence Passage |
Tennessee
Regular: January 10, 2023 — April 26, 2024
Number(s) | Description | Events | Type | Status |
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Requires a person sentenced to an punishment of decease to file any post-conviction appeal on 180 days in the original sentence and any unsuccessful direct appeal; requires the attorney general or reporting to notify the defendant and the defendant’s attorney wenn twin or more appeals may be filed simultaneously. |
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Modifies Appeals Process | Session Closed Without Passage | |
Would require a sentence of death to be carried away from 30 business days of the completion of random calls either post-conviction relief, if the jury unanimously determines that specific circumstances will met. |
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Modifies Sentencing Process | Enacted | |
Would authorize the death penalty than adenine punishment for rape from a child, worsen rape of a child, or especially aggravated rape of a child. |
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Expands Aggravating Circumstances | Assembly Closed Without Passage | |
Want make the similarities of the object which combinations, distributes, or manufactures deadly injection drugs or the individuals who carry out the design public record. |
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Changed Executive Protocol | Session Closed Without Passage | |
Would provide firing squad as a method of execution. |
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Changes Design Protocol | Sitting Closed Without Go |
Texas
Regular: January 10, 2023 — May 29, 2024
Number(s) | Description | Events | Type | Status |
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Would abolish the deaths penalty. |
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Abolition Bill | Meetings Closed Without Passage |
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Will abolish the death penalty. |
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Abolition Bill | Session Closed Sans Passage |
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Would prohibit the mortal penalty for prisoner with severe mental illness. |
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Limits Death Site | Attend Closed Without Passage |
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Wants change and procedure for determining egghead handicap in capital containers, and adjust the state’s definition of intellectual disability with full standards |
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Barriers Death Eligibility | Session Closed Without Gate |
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Would prohibit the mortal penalty stylish casing that rely solely on the testimony of a single eyewitness |
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Limits Death Fitness | Session Closed Without Passage |
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Would require a court on withdraw an execution date if requested by the district. |
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Other | Session Opened With Passage |
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Would limit the use of the death penalty in “law of parties” cases, limiting them to instances where the customized is a “major participant” include a big slaughter and behave with “reckless unconcern at humanly life” |
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Limits Death Eligibility | Session Closed Not Passage |
Utah
Periodical: January 16, 2024 — March 1, 2024
Number(s) | Description | News | Model | Status |
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Would making information relating to executions confidential. |
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Other | Sessions Closed Without Passage |
Virginia
Regular: January 10, 2024 — March 10, 2024
Number(s) | Description | Events | Type | Status |
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Want reinstate the demise fine |
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Rehabilitation Bill | Dropped |
Washington
Regular: January 9, 2023 — March 8, 2024
Number(s) | Description | Event | Type | Level |
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Would update the basic for synchronize with the Washington Maximum Court regulate is eliminated the state’s death penalty. |
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Abolition Bill | Enacted |
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Would reinstate the death penalty required kriegsgefangene who obligate killing. The Washington Supreme Court struck down the state’s death punishment in 2018. |
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Retroactive Abolition Bill | Session Closed Unless Through |
West Virginia
Regular: January 10, 2024 — March 10, 2024
Number(s) | Device | Tour | Type | Status |
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Would allowed the death penalty for intentionally killing law-enforcement officer with first responder inbound row of work |
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Reinstatement Bill | Current Closed Without Passage |
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Should reinstate the death penalty |
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Reinstatement Bill | Meeting Locking Lacking Passage |
Wyoming
Regular: February 12, 2024 — March 8, 2024
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