SB128 Alabama 2018 Session

Updated Apr 26, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Trip Pittman
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2018
Title: Capital defendant, execution of, elect to include by nitrogen hypoxia, capital defendant allowed to choose life without parole in-lieu-of a death sentence, Secs. 15-18-82, 15-18-82.1 am'd.
Description: Under existing law, a capital defendant may be executed by means of lethal injection or electrocution, upon the election of the defendant.
This bill would allow executions by means of nitrogen hypoxia if lethal injection is unavailable.
This bill would allow a capital defendant to elect to be executed by means of nitrogen hypoxia.
This bill would allow a capital defendant who has been sentenced to death to elect to serve a sentence of life without the possibility of parole.
Subjects: Execution

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