Patrolman Cassie Marie Johnson Memorial Act

This bill, named in honor of Patrolman Cassie Marie Johnson (a West Virginia law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty), amends West Virginia’s murder statutes to add "the victim was a law-enforcement officer killed while performing official duty" as a specific aggravating circumstance for imposing the death penalty in first-degree murder cases. It requires juries to unanimously find such an aggravating circumstance (without mitigating factors) to sentence a defendant to death, otherwise mandating life imprisonment without parole. The bill also standardizes death penalty procedures, including mandatory DNA testing in such cases, lethal injection execution, and protocols for transferring death-row inmates to correctional facilities. It directly affects defendants convicted of first-degree murder where an officer was killed in service, altering sentencing outcomes under existing capital punishment laws.