SB76 Alabama 2022 Session

Updated Apr 15, 2022

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Sam GivhanSenator
Republican
Co-Sponsors: Will Barfoot Chris Elliott
Session: Regular Session 2022
Title: Governor, granting of reprieves and commutations, notice to victims required under certain conditions, const. amend.
Description: The Constitution of Alabama of 1901, provides that the Governor has the authority to grant a reprieve or a commutation to a person sentenced to death.
This proposed constitutional amendment would require the Governor to take reasonable steps to provide notice to certain persons prior to granting a commutation to a person under a sentence of death and would authorize certain persons to challenge the granting of a commutation upon a violation.
Subjects: Constitutional Amendments

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