AN ACT relating to the abolition of the death penalty.
Summary
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 KRS 532.030 to remove the death penalty; amend KRS 640.040 to prohibit life imprisonment without benefit of parole for a juvenile offender convicted of a capital offense; amend KRS 640.010 to define "serious intellectual disability" and "significant subaverage general intellectual functioning"; amend KRS 422.285, 532.050, 532.100, and 533.010 to conform; repeal KRS 431.213, 431.2135, 431.218, 431.220, 431.223, 431.224, 431.240, 431.250, 431.260, 431.270, 507A.060, 532.025, 532.075, 532.130, 532.135, 532.140, 532.300, 532.305, and 532.309.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2024
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Jan 29, 2024
Last action Jan 31, 2024
Floor votes
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Actions timeline
Total actions
3
Key actions
0
Committee
2
Jan 31, 2024
Committee
to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)
upper
Jan 29, 2024
Committee
to Committee on Committees (S)
upper
Jan 29, 2024
Introduced
introduced in Senate
upper
4 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Denise Harper Angel
DDemocratic
P
Karen Berg
DDemocratic
P
Steve Meredith
RRepublican
P
Whitney Westerfield
RRepublican
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