HB524 Alabama 2025 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Phillip Ensler Representative

Democrat

Session

2025 Regular Session

Title

Pardons and Paroles; juvenile offenders serving life without parole; parole authorized following satisfaction of certain conditions

Description

Under existing law, the United States Supreme Court has held the Eight Amendment to the United States Constitution bars mandatory life without parole for juvenile offenders. A juvenile offender may be sentenced to life without parole, but that sentence may not be mandated under law.

This bill would provide that a juvenile offender serving life without parole becomes eligible for parole following the completion of 10 years of his or her prison sentence.

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Subjects

Criminal Procedure