2025 Regular SessionKentucky Legislature

SB101: AN ACT relating to the abolition of the death penalty.

Legislative 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.

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Bill History

2/4/2025
introduced in Senate
Senate
2/4/2025
to Committee on Committees (S)
Senate
2/6/2025
to Judiciary (S)
Senate

Status Information

Current Status
Introduced(2/4/2025)
Chamber
Senate
Committee
Judiciary(Senate)

Sponsors

Democrat: 2

Primary Sponsor

Gerald Neal
Gerald Neal
Democrat

Co-Sponsors (1)

Documents

Introduced
Bill Text1/1/197098.9 KB
Corrections Impact
Corrections Impact1/1/19703.2 KB