Kentucky Senate Bill 15 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: Introduced on January 6 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-02-03 - to Judiciary (S)
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [MS Word]

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to abolish the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without parole for inmates presently sentenced to death; amend various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to eliminate the term "capital offense" and replace it with Class A felony; amend KRS 532.030, relating to authorized dispositions for felony offenses, to permit imprisonment for life without parole and imprisonment for life without parole for 25 years for offenses formerly denominated as capital offenses; amend KRS 533.010, relating to probation, to prohibit probation for a person sentenced to life without parole or life without parole for 25 years; amend KRS 640.040, relating to penalties for juveniles convicted of felony offenses, to authorize imprisonment for life without benefit of parole for 25 years, but not life imprisonment without benefit of parole, for a Class A felony which was formerly a capital offense; repeal various statutes relating to imposition of the death penalty.

AN ACT relating to the abolition of the death penalty.

Sen. Gerald Neal [D]	Sen. Julie Raque Adams [R]	Sen. Perry Clark [D]	Sen. Denise Harper Angel [D]
Sen. Reginald Thomas [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-03	Senate	to Judiciary (S)
2015-01-06	Senate	introduced in Senate
2015-08-07	Senate	To: Interim Joint Committee on Judiciary

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/SB15.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/SB15/bill.doc
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/SB15/CI.doc