Montgomery, Alabama
The Alabama House Judiciary Committee has rejected a bill that would provide new sentences for about 30 inmates who were given the death penalty despite a jury’s recommendation of life imprisonment.
Alabama in 2017 became the last state to end the practice of allowing judges to override a jury’s sentence recommendation in death penalty case, but the change was not retroactive. There are about 33 people on Alabama’s death row who were sentenced by judicial override, England said. The bill was rejected on a party-line vote, with nine Republicans voting against it, and the four Democrats voting for it.
“The law that was in effect at the time allowed judicial override. These judges, in their discretion, overrode. Consequently, it’s very difficult for me to second guess or in effect override that,” Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Hill said.
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