Bill Text: MS SB2544 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Capital offense; clarify sentencing.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2015-02-03 - Died In Committee [SB2544 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2015-SB2544-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2015 Regular Session
To: Judiciary, Division A
By: Senator(s) Bryan
Senate Bill 2544
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 99-19-107, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO CLARIFY THAT A PERSON WHOSE DEATH SENTENCE HAS BEEN HELD TO HAVE BEEN UNCONSTITUTIONAL SHALL BE SENTENCED TO IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE AND IS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR PAROLE; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 99-19-107, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
99-19-107. * * * If the death penalty is
held to be unconstitutional as a whole by the Mississippi Supreme Court
or the United States Supreme Court, or if a person's sentence to death has
been held to be unconstitutional, whether on account of that person's
membership in a particular class of offenders or for some reason particular to
that person, the court having jurisdiction over a person previously
sentenced to death shall cause * * * the person to be brought before the
court and the court shall sentence * * * the person to imprisonment for
life, and * * *
the person shall not be eligible for parole.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
