Senate Bill 47

Title
AN ACT relating to the abolition of the death penalty.
Summary of Original Version
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 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.
Documents
Introduced .pdf (90.56 KB)
LRC URI
https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22rs/sb47.html
Session
2022 Regular Session
Index Headings of Original Version
Courts
Death penalty, replacement with life imprisonment without parole
Crimes and Punishments
Death penalty, replacement with life imprisonment without parole
Criminal Procedure
Death penalty, replacement with life imprisonment without parole
Deaths
Death penalty, replacement with life imprisonment without parole
Actions
01/05/22
  • introduced in Senate
  • to Committee on Committees (S)
01/08/22
  • to Judiciary (S)