2020 Legislation

1. HB 275/​SB 200 would decrease the avail­abil­i­ty of state-court judi­cial review of death penal­ty cas­es by vest­ing exclu­sive juris­dic­tion over death penal­ty appeals in the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals and elim­i­nat­ing sub­se­quent dis­cre­tionary review by the Alabama Supreme Court.

2. HB 359 would require a unan­i­mous jury vote in order to impose a death sentence.

SB 200 intro­duced on February 18, 2020 and referred to the Senate Committee on Judiciary. The com­mit­tee adopt­ed the same sub­sti­tute as the House, which then PASSED com­mit­tee by a 4 – 3 vote on February 27.

2. Read for the first time on February 27, 2020 and referred to Committee on Judiciary.

1. SB 1249 would abol­ish the death penalty.

2. SB 1250 would exempt defen­dants with seri­ous men­tal ill­ness from the death penalty.

3. SB 1386 changes Arizona’s death penal­ty statute to say a tri­er of fact ​“may” impose a death sen­tence if an aggra­vat­ing cir­cum­stance is found, rather than ​“shall” impose a death sentence.

1. First read­ing January 23, 2020. Second read­ing January 27. Assigned to Judiciary and Rules committees.

2. First read­ing January 23, 2020. Second read­ing January 27. Assigned to Judiciary and Rules committees.

3. First read­ing January 29, 2020. Assigned to Judiciary and Rules committees.

1. ACA 12 would amend the California con­sti­tu­tion to pro­vide that ​“The death penal­ty shall not be imposed as a pun­ish­ment for any vio­la­tions of law.”

2. AB-580 would amend the pro­ce­dures for com­mu­ta­tions of death sen­tences, requir­ing that the gov­er­nor noti­fy vic­tims’ fam­i­lies and allow­ing vic­tims’ fam­i­lies to request a pub­lic hear­ing before a com­mu­ta­tion is grant­ed. A com­mu­ta­tion would not go into effect until at least 30 days after such a hearing.

3. AB 1798 would cre­ate the California Racial Justice Act, allow­ing pris­on­ers to chal­lenge their death sen­tences using sta­tis­ti­cal evi­dence of racial bias in the appli­ca­tion of the death penal­ty or jury selection.

4. SCR 38 would con­demn Governor Gavin Newsom’s impo­si­tion of a mora­to­ri­um on the death penal­ty and request that the state Attorney General con­tin­ue pursuing executions.

5. AB 2200 would pro­hib­it racial dis­crim­i­na­tion in con­vic­tions and sen­tences and cre­ate a process to chal­lenge racial dis­crim­i­na­tion at tri­al or following conviction.

6. AB 2512 would pro­hib­it pros­e­cu­tors from mak­ing race-based argu­ments to keep peo­ple with intel­lec­tu­al dis­abil­i­ties on death row and make oth­er changes to mod­ern­ize the statute on intel­lec­tu­al dis­abil­i­ties and the death penalty.

7. AB 2542 would cre­ate a California Racial Justice Act, applic­a­ble to all crim­i­nal cas­es, which would pro­hib­it the state from seek­ing a crim­i­nal con­vic­tion or sen­tence on the basis of race, eth­nic­i­ty, or nation­al ori­gin and pro­vide a mech­a­nism for pris­on­ers to chal­lenge con­vic­tions or sen­tences that had been obtained based on race, eth­nic­i­ty, or national origin.

8. AB 3070 would reform the use of peremp­to­ry strikes with the intent of reduc­ing bias in jury selection.

1. Introduced March 13, 2019.

2. Referred to Committee on Public Safety, Feb. 25, 2019. Amended by author on April 1 and re-referred to com­mit­tee on April 2.

3. AB 1798 was intro­duced February 22, 2019. Referred to Committee on Public Safety, March 21. PASSED Committee 6 – 1 on April 24. Referred to the Appropriations Committee, where it DIED IN COMMITTEE with­out con­sid­er­a­tion on January 31, 2020.

4. Introduced April 8, 2019.

5. Introduced February 12, 2020. Referred to Committee on Public Safety.

6. AB 2512 was intro­duced February 19, 2020. Referred to the Assembly Committee on Public Safety. PASSED Public Safety Committee 6 – 1 on May 19. PASSED full Assembly, 57 – 0, on June 15 and referred to the Senate.

PASSED the Senate Committee on Public Safety 5 – 0 on July 31. PASSED the full Senate 30 – 1 on August 28, com­plet­ing legislative passage.

Governor Gavin Newsom SIGNED THE BILL INTO LAW on September 30, 2020.

7. AB 2542 was intro­duced February 19, 2020. PASSED the Assembly Transportation Committee 15 – 0 on May 4, 2020. PASSED the Assembly Appropriations Committee 18 – 0 on June 2, 2020. PASSED the full Assembly 76 – 0‑3 on June 8 and referred to the Senate.

PASSED the Senate Committee on Public Safety 4 – 2‑1 on August 7. AMENDED to make it non-retroac­tive and PASSED in the Appropriations Committee 5 – 2 on August 20. PASSED the Senate 26 – 10‑4, as amend­ed, and returned to the Assembly on August 31, the final day of the legislative session. 

The Assembly CONCURRED in the Senate amend­ments, 49 – 16-14, on August 31, com­plet­ing legislative passage.

Governor Gavin Newsom SIGNED THE BILL INTO LAW on September 30, 2020.

8. AB 3070 was intro­duced February 21, 2020. PASSED the Assembly Judiciary Committee 8 – 3 on May 12. PASSED the Appropriations Committee 13 – 5 on June 2. PASSED the Assembly 53 – 16 on June 11 and referred to the Senate.

Amended in the Senate Committee on Public Safety and PASSED, 4 – 3, as amend­ed on August 7. Referred to the Appropriations Committee and PASSED, 5 – 2, as fur­ther amend­ed on August 20. REFUSED PASSAGE, 18 – 11, by the full Senate on August 30, but RECONSIDERATION GRANTED, 39 – 0, lat­er that day. PASSED the Senate, as amend­ed, by a 21 – 16 vote on August 31, the last vot­ing day of the leg­is­la­tion ses­sion, and returned to the Assembly.

Shortly before mid­night on the 31^st, the Assembly CONCURRED in the Senate amend­ments, 49 – 17, com­plet­ing legislative passage.

Governor Gavin Newsom SIGNED THE BILL INTO LAW on September 30, 2020.

1. HB 299 would amend the death penal­ty statute declared uncon­sti­tu­tion­al by the Delaware Supreme Court by per­mit­ting cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment upon proof of one or more of four aggra­vat­ing cir­cum­stances —the mur­der of at least three peo­ple, a pri­or mur­der con­vic­tion, mur­der moti­vat­ed by a hate crime, and a mur­der com­mit­ted in an ​“out­ra­geous­ly or wan­ton­ly vile, hor­ri­ble or inhu­man” man­ner; and requir­ing the jury to unan­i­mous­ly find any aggra­vat­ing cir­cum­stance and to unan­i­mous­ly find that the aggra­vat­ing cir­cum­stances it has found out­weigh mit­i­gat­ing cir­cum­stances beyond a reasonable doubt.

2. HB 305 would amend the Delaware con­sti­tu­tion to pro­hib­it the impo­si­tion of the death penalty.

1. Introduced March 12, 2020 and assigned to House Judiciary Committee.

2. Introduced March 12, 2020 and assigned to House Judiciary Committee.

1. HB 6045/​SB 938 would repeal the death penalty.

2. SB 28/​HB 6507 would pro­vide $2.15 mil­lion com­pen­sa­tion to death-row exoneree Clifford Williams. Williams was wrong­ful­ly incar­cer­at­ed for 43 years before being exon­er­at­ed in 2019.

3. CS/​HB 7077 would expand access to post-con­vic­tion DNA testing.

1. HB 6045 filed November 5, 2019, referred to Judiciary Committee on November 15. First read­ing January 14, 2020.
SB 938 filed November 14, 2019, referred to Criminal Justice Committee on December 13, 2019. Introduced January 14, 2020. The bills are not expect­ed to receive a hear­ing this ses­sion. SB 938 was with­drawn from con­sid­er­a­tion on March 14.

2. SB 28 was intro­duced on January 14, 2020 and referred to the Judiciary Committee. PASSED Judiciary Committee 5 – 0 on January 28 and referred to Appropriations Committee. PASSED Criminal and Civil Justice Subcommittee 8 – 0 on February 18. PASSED Appropriations Committee 20 – 0 on February 20. PASSED Senate 40 – 0 on March 3. PASSED House 116 – 0 on March 10.

HB 6507 was intro­duced on January 14, 2020 and referred to the Civil Justice Subcommittee. PASSED Civil Justice Subcommittee 15 – 0 on January 22 and referred to Appropriations Committee. PASSED Appropriations Committee 27 – 0 on February 18 and referred to Judiciary Committee. PASSED Judiciary Committee 17 – 0 on February 26. The House ver­sion was passed over in favor of the Senate ver­sion, which passed both houses unanimously.

SIGNED by Governor DeSantis, June 9, 2020.

3. Filed February 5, 2020. PASSED House Appropriations Committee on February 18 by a vote of 27 – 0. PASSED House Judiciary Committee on February 27 by a 17 – 0 vote. PASSED the House 114 – 0 on March 10. Senate FAILED to act on the bill before the session ended.

1. HB 267 would bar the death penal­ty in cas­es in which the only evi­dence of guilt is the tes­ti­mo­ny of a sin­gle eye­wit­ness.

2. HB 702/​HB 916 would repeal the death penal­ty and resen­tence those cur­rent­ly on death row to life with­out parole.

1. Introduced on February 12, 2019.

2. HB 702 Introduced on March 28, 2019 and referred to the House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee. HB 916 intro­duced on February 18, 2020.

1. HB 2035, SB 1444, SB 1487, SB 2109, and HB4066 rein­state the death penal­ty and cre­ate reg­u­la­tions for rep­re­sen­ta­tion and funding.

2. HB 3164 rein­states the death penal­ty for mur­der of a police offi­cer, fire­fight­er, or multiple victims.

1. HB 2035 filed February 1, 2019, first read­ing February 4, referred to Rules Committee. SB 1444 filed February 13, referred to Assignments. SB 1487 filed February 13, referred to Assignments. SB 2109 filed February 15, referred to Assignments. HB 4066 filed January 10, 2020 and referred to Rules Committee January 13.

2. Filed February 15, 2019.

1. SF 296 and SF 588 would rein­state the death penal­ty for the crime of kid­nap­ping, rape, and mur­der of a minor.

2. HF 62 would rein­state the death penal­ty for first degree murder.

1. SF 296 intro­duced February 19, 2019. Referred to Judiciary Committee. A sub­com­mit­tee of the Judiciary Committee vot­ed 3 – 2 on February 27 to rec­om­mend pas­sage of the bill. The Judiciary Committee PASSED the bill on March 7 by a vote of 8 – 7. The bill died after fail­ing to meet the April 5 ​“sec­ond fun­nel” dead­line for approval by com­mit­tees in both Houses of the leg­is­la­ture. SF 588 is a lat­er ver­sion of the same bill.

2. Introduced January 23, 2019. Referred to Judiciary Committee.

1. HB 2282 and SB 21 would abol­ish the death penal­ty.

2. SB 95 would require the board of heal­ing arts and board of phar­ma­cy to be involved in deci­sions relat­ed to lethal-injection protocols.

3. SB 96 would require annu­al inspec­tions of the execution chamber.

1. SB 21 was intro­duced on January 17, 2019 and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

HB 2282 was intro­duced on February 12, 2019 and referred to the Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice, which con­duct­ed a hear­ing on the bill on February 19. The com­mit­tee vot­ed 7 – 6 on February 22 to defeat the bill.

2. Introduced February 5, 2019 and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

3. Introduced February 5, 2019 and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

1. HB 38 would repeal the death penalty.

2. HB 222 would add nitro­gen hypox­ia as an exe­cu­tion method if lethal injec­tion is unavail­able and make secret the iden­ti­ties of any­one involved in the exe­cu­tion process, includ­ing providers of drugs or medical equipment.

1. Prefiled February 5, 2020 and referred to Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice. 

2. Prefiled on February 26, 2020 and referred to Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.

1. H 1387 would rein­state the death penalty.

2. H 3773 would rein­state the death penal­ty for the killing of law enforcement officers.

1. Referred to the com­mit­tee on the Judiciary, January 22, 2019.

2. Referred to the com­mit­tee on the Judiciary, May 13, 2019. Hearing held October 8, 2019.

HR 148 is a res­o­lu­tion oppos­ing the fed­er­al gov­ern­men­t’s efforts to resume exe­cu­tions.

Introduced September 3, 2019 and referred to Committee on Judiciary.

1. HB 1277/​SB 635 would abol­ish the death penal­ty and resen­tence death-row pris­on­ers to life without parole.

2. HB 1331 would cre­ate a Change of Venue for Capital Cases Fund to reim­burse a coun­ty that receives a cap­i­tal case from anoth­er coun­ty for costs asso­ci­at­ed with the seques­ter­ing of jurors. 

3. HB 1756 would exempt defen­dants with severe men­tal ill­ness from the death penalty.

4. HB 1925 would require that a life sen­tence be imposed if the sen­tenc­ing jury does not unan­i­mous­ly agree to a death sen­tence, repeal­ing a pro­vi­sion that treat­ed a non-unan­i­mous vote as a hung jury and allowed the tri­al judge to deter­mine the sentence.

1. HB 1277 pre­filed December 2, 2019. First read­ing January 8, 2020, sec­ond read­ing January 9. SB 635 pre­filed December 1, 2019. First read­ing January 8, 2020. Second read­ing January 16, bill referred to General Laws Committee.

2. Prefiled December 2, 2019. First read­ing January 8, 2020. Second read­ing January 9, bill referred to Judiciary Committee. Public hear­ing held January 28. PASSED Judiciary Committee 16 – 0 on February 11, referred to Rules Committee. PASSED Rules Committee 8 – 1 on February 13, referred to Fiscal Review. PASSED Fiscal Review 9 – 0 on March 2. PASSED House 134 – 17 on March 2 and report­ed to the Senate.

3. Prefiled December 12, 2019. First read­ing January 8, 2020. Second read­ing January 9. The bill was referred to the House Special Committee on Criminal Justice on February 27, which con­duct­ed a pub­lic hear­ing on the bill on March 5.

4. Prefiled January 2, 2020. First read­ing January 8. Second read­ing January 9. The bill was referred to the House Special Committee on Criminal Justice on February 27, which con­duct­ed a pub­lic hear­ing on the bill on March 5.

1. LB 44 would elim­i­nate the death penal­ty as a pun­ish­ment for first-degree mur­der.

2. LB 207 would estab­lish a Death Penalty Defense Standards Advisory Council to exam­ine the cur­rent cap­i­tal defense sys­tem in Nebraska and devel­op guide­lines and stan­dards for cap­i­tal defense representation.

3. LB 238 would change pro­vi­sions relat­ing to wit­ness­ing exe­cu­tions to make exe­cu­tions more transparent.

1. Introduced on January 10, 2019 and referred to the Judiciary Committee on January 14. The Committee con­duct­ed a hear­ing on the bill on March 7 and on March 15 vot­ed 5 – 2 to advance the bill to the full Senate. Sen. Chambers des­ig­nat­ed the bill a pri­or­i­ty bill and it was placed on ​“gen­er­al file” on March 18. By a vote of 25 – 17 on April 25, it failed to advance to sec­ond con­sid­er­a­tion but was car­ried over to the 2020 leg­isla­tive ses­sion on January 8, 2020.

2. Introduced on January 11, 2019 and referred to the Judiciary Committee on January 15. The Committee con­duct­ed a hear­ing on the bill for March 7. The bill was car­ried over to the 2020 leg­isla­tive ses­sion on January 8, 2020.

3. Introduced on January 14, 2019 and referred to the Judiciary Committee on January 16. The Committee con­duct­ed a hear­ing on the bill for March 7, 2019. The bill was place on ​“gen­er­al file” on May 23, then car­ried over to the 2020 leg­isla­tive ses­sion January 8, 2020, where it advanced to sec­ond con­sid­er­a­tion by a vote of 33 – 7 on February 13, 2020.

1. A 6114 would rein­state the death penalty.

2. A 7222/​S 4320/​S 1995/​A 6822 would for­mal­ly remove the death penal­ty from New York law.

1. Referred to Codes, February 28, 2019.

2. A 7222 referred to Codes, April 12, 2019. S 4320 referred to Codes March 7, 2019. S 1995 referred to Codes January 18, 2019. A 6822 referred to Codes March 20, 2019.

1. HB 587 would repeal the death penalty.

2. SB 668 pro­hibits the death penal­ty for defen­dants with ​“severe men­tal dis­abil­i­ty” at the time of the crime.​“Severe men­tal dis­abil­i­ty” is defined as ​“any men­tal dis­abil­i­ty or defect that sig­nif­i­cant­ly impairs a per­son­’s capac­i­ty to do any of the fol­low­ing: (i) appre­ci­ate the nature, con­se­quences, or wrong­ful­ness of the per­son­’s con­duct in the crim­i­nal offense, (ii) exer­cise ratio­nal judg­ment in rela­tion to the crim­i­nal offense, or (iii) con­form the per­son­’s con­duct to the require­ments of the law in con­nec­tion with the criminal offense.”

1. Filed April 3, 2019. Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

2. Filed April 3, 2019. Referred to Committee on Rules and Operations.

HB 136/​SB 54 would pro­hib­it the death penal­ty for defen­dants with seri­ous mental illness.

PASSED the Senate, with amend­ments, on December 9 by a vote of 27 – 3. House approved Senate amend­ments on December 17.

SIGNED by Gov. DeWine on January 9, 2021.

1. HB 577 would allow a sen­tence of death if at least 11 jurors find an aggra­vat­ing cir­cum­stance and no mitigating circumstance.

2. SB 848 & HB 2211 would pro­hib­it impo­si­tion of the death penal­ty and make mur­der in the first degree pun­ish­able only by a sen­tence of life without parole.

1. Referred to Judiciary Committee, February 28, 2019.

2. SB 848 intro­duced on September 5, 2019 and referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

HB 2211 intro­duced on January 14, 2020 and referred to the House Judiciary Committee

1. H 3301 & S 0176 would make elec­tro­cu­tion the default method of exe­cu­tion, but would allow pris­on­ers to select exe­cu­tion by lethal injec­tion if lethal injec­tion is avail­able. It also adds fir­ing squad as a back­up method of execution.

2. H 3354 would pre­vent dis­clo­sure of iden­ti­ties of mem­bers of the exe­cu­tion team, includ­ing providers of lethal-injec­tion drugs or medical supplies.

3. S 0047 would abol­ish the death penal­ty and life with­out parole for juve­nile offend­ers. (Juvenile offend­ers are inel­i­gi­ble for the death penal­ty under the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2005 rul­ing in Roper v. Simmons.)

4. S 0058 would abol­ish the death penal­ty.

1. H 3301 pre­filed and referred to the House Committee on Judiciary, December 18, 2018. S 0176 pre­filed and referred to the Senate Committee on Corrections and Penology, December 12, 2018. PASSED the Senate by a vote of 26 – 13 on January 30, 2019 and advanced to con­sid­er­a­tion by the House. It was referred to the House Judiciary Committee on January 31. The com­mit­tee con­duct­ed a hear­ing on the bill on March 3, 2020, reject­ed an amend­ment to make the bill apply prospec­tive­ly only, and vot­ed to approve the bill.

2. Prefiled and referred to the Committee on Judiciary, December 18, 2018. It was for­mal­ly intro­duced and referred to com­mit­tee on January 8, 2019.

3. Prefiled and referred to the Committee on Judiciary, December 12, 2018. It was for­mal­ly intro­duced and referred to com­mit­tee on January 8, 2019.

4. Prefiled and referred to the Committee on Judiciary, December 12, 2018. It was for­mal­ly intro­duced and referred to com­mit­tee on January 8, 2019.

HB 1455/​SB 1124 would exclude defen­dants with severe men­tal ill­ness from the death penalty.

HB1455/​SB1124 were intro­duced February 6, 2019. HB1455 was referred to the House Judiciary Committee on February 11 and assigned to the Criminal Justice Subcommittee on February 13. It was favor­ably report­ed out of sub­com­mit­tee on March 13. PASSED Judiciary Committee by a voice vote on March 11.

SB1124 was referred to Senate Judiciary Committee on February 11, 2019.

1. HB 85/​SB 449 would abol­ish the death penal­ty, includ­ing for those cur­rent­ly sen­tenced to death.

2. SB 116/​HB 280/​HB 1386 would exempt defen­dants with severe men­tal ill­ness from the death penalty.

3. SB 270 would make the iden­ti­ty of any enti­ty that pro­vides exe­cu­tion drugs pub­lic infor­ma­tion sub­ject to dis­clo­sure under the state Freedom of Information Act and in civ­il legal proceedings.

4. SB 331 would add mur­der com­mit­ted on the grounds of a school or day­care to the cat­e­go­ry of capital murder.

5. SB 802 would impose a mora­to­ri­um on exe­cu­tions until a sub­com­mit­tee stud­ies the issue and presents a report and recommendations.

1. HB 85 pre­filed December 10, 2019 and referred to Committee for Courts of Justice. SB 449 pre­filed and referred to Committee on Judiciary, January 7, 2020. Judiciary Committee held a hear­ing on SB 449 on January 29. The com­mit­tee vot­ed 9 – 6 on February 5 to con­tin­ue the bill to the 2021 ses­sion, mean­ing no fur­ther action will be tak­en in 2020.

2. SB 116 pre­filed December 14, 2019. HB 280 pre­filed December 30, 2019 and referred to Committee for Courts of Justice. HB 1386 pre­filed January 8, 2020 and referred to Committee for Courts of Justice.

SB 116 report­ed out of Senate Judiciary Committee, 9 – 4 on January 27, 2020. PASSED the full Senate by a vote of 32 – 7 on January 30. 

3. SB 270 pre­filed January 3, 2020 and referred to the Senate Committee on Education and Health. Replaced with a sub­sti­tut­ed ver­sion and favor­ably report­ed out of com­mit­tee by a vote of 11 – 3 on January 30. PASSED by the full Senate by a vote of 21 – 19 on February 4. 

SB 270 was placed on the House cal­en­dar and referred to the Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions on February 13. It was report­ed out of com­mit­tee by a vote of 13 – 9 on February 25. 

PASSED the House 53 – 45 on March 3. Senate approved House amend­ments 22 – 17. SIGNED by the gov­er­nor on April 11, 2020.

4. Prefiled and referred to Committee on Judiciary, January 6, 2020. Passed by indef­i­nite­ly, January 27.

5. Prefiled and referred to Committee on Judiciary, January 8, 2020. Hearing held January 29.

1. SB 5339/​HB 1488 would remove the death penal­ty from Washington’s laws, bring­ing it in line with the 2018 Washington Supreme Court rul­ing strik­ing down the death penalty.

2. SB 5364/​HB 1709 would rein­state the death penal­ty for peo­ple who com­mit mur­der while incarcerated.

1. SB 5339 intro­duced on January 17, 2019 and referred to the Senate Committee on Law & Justice. After a pub­lic hear­ing on February 5, the bill Passed the com­mit­tee on February 7 with 4 – 1 rec­om­men­da­tion, 2019. The bill PASSED the State Senate on February 15 by a vote of 28 – 19. It was referred to the House Committee on Public Safety on February 18, which con­duct­ed a pub­lic hear­ing on the bill on March 25 and vot­ed to PASS the bill on April 1.

Reintroduced in the 2020 ses­sion on January 23, 2020. PASSED the Senate on January 31, 2020 by a 28 – 18 vote. Referred to the House Committee on Public Safety on February 3, where a hear­ing was held on February 24. PASSED House Committee on Public Safety by a 7 – 3 vote on February 27. Failed to come up for a vote in the full House by the March 7 dead­line for con­sid­er­a­tion in the 2020 legislative session.

HB 1488 intro­duced on January 23, 2019 and referred to the Committee on Public Safety.

2. SB 5364 intro­duced January 18, 2019 and referred to Law & Justice Committee. HB 1709 intro­duced on January 29, 2019 and referred to Committee on Public Safety.

1. HR 99 would pro­vide addi­tion­al aggra­vat­ing fac­tors for the impo­si­tion of the death penal­ty based on the sta­tus of the victim.

2. HR 4022 (Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act) would abol­ish the fed­er­al and mil­i­tary death penal­ty, and com­mute exist­ing fed­er­al and mil­i­tary death sen­tences to life without parole.

3. HR 4052 would abol­ish the fed­er­al death penal­ty and pro­vides for resen­tenc­ing of those cur­rent­ly sen­tenced to death.

4. HR 3980/​S 2264 would require that, when a cap­i­tal jury does not reach a unan­i­mous sen­tenc­ing rec­om­men­da­tion, a new jury would be impan­eled. If the new jury is also not unan­i­mous, the court is barred from impos­ing a death sentence.

1. Introduced January 3, 2019.

2. Introduced July 25, 2019. Referred to Committee on Judiciary and Committee on Armed Services.

3. Introduced on July 25, 2019. Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

4. Both bills intro­duced on July 25, 2019, referred to Committee on the Judiciary.