SB375 Alabama 2017 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Hank Sanders
Democrat
Session: Regular Session 2017
Title: Capital cases, judge not to override jury verdict of life without parole, Act 2017-131 made retroactive, Act 2017-131, 2017 Reg. Sess., am'd.
Description: Under existing law, Act 2017-131 of the 2017 Regular Session removed the authority of the court to override a jury verdict in a capital case. Act 2017-131 specifically provided that the act would not apply retroactively.
This bill would specify that Act 2017-131 would apply retroactively.
Subjects: Death Penalty

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Judiciary