Abolishes the death penalty and specifies that any person sentenced to death must be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole

Summary

HB 2521 would repeal the statutes that allow capital punishment and require that anyone who would have been sentenced to death instead receive life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. The change would affect current death‑row inmates and anyone convicted of a capital crime in the future. The measure failed to pass in the House.

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