HB351 Alabama 2013 Session

Updated Jan 10, 2026

House Bill

In Committee

Current Status

Regular Session 2013

Session

10

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Allen Farley
Republican
Co-Sponsors: Mike Jones Jim Carns Kurt Wallace Wayne Johnson Mark Tuggle Allen Treadaway Mac McCutcheon Terri Collins Becky Nordgren
Session: Regular Session 2013
Title: Sentencing, juvenile offenders convicted of capital offenses and certain non-capital offenses, maximum sentence of life without the possibility of parole for 40 years, Secs. 13A-5-2, 13A-5-39, 13A-5-43, 13A-6-2 am'd.
Description: Under existing law, a person convicted of capital murder is sentenced to either the term of life without the possibility of parole or death. A person also must be sentenced to a minimum term of life without the possibility of parole for certain non-homicide offenses.
This bill would provide that a person under the age of 18 years at the time of the offense convicted of a capital offense or certain non-capital offenses punishable by a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole, may, in the alternative, be sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for 40 years, in order to comply with recent United States Supreme Court decisions in Miller v. Alabama and Graham v.
Florida.
This bill also would provide that the juvenile defendant subject to this alternative sentence is eligible to apply for parole consideration only once, 40 years after the date the defendant began serving the sentence. If parole is denied at that time, the defendant will not be eligible for parole again, and the defendant is not eligible for any incentive time deductions under current law. The bill would provide that in capital murder cases, the procedures of this act would apply to defendants who have not yet been sentenced for capital murder on or after the effective date of the act, with certain exceptions.
Subjects: Crimes and Offenses