File Code: Criminal Law - Procedure
Prior Year Introduction As: HB 74/03 - JUD
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Kelly, Amedori, Boutin, Bozman, Cluster, Conway,
DeBoy, Donoghue, Dwyer, Eckardt, Edwards, Elmore, Haddaway, Hennessy,
Leopold, Love, McComas, McKee, Minnick, Myers, O'Donnell, Owings,
Rudolph, Shank, Smigiel, Sophocleus, Sossi, Stull, Walkup, Weldon, and
Wood
- Entitled:
-
Crimes - Death Penalty - Murder of Off-Duty Law Enforcement Officer
Providing that a defendant found guilty of murder in the first degree
may be sentenced to death if that defendant murdered a law enforcement
officer while the officer was not on duty if the murder was committed
in retaliation for the officer's actions while on duty.
House Action
- 1/23
- First Reading Judiciary
- 2/18
- Hearing 3/3 at 1:00 p.m.
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Kevin Kelly, District 1B
- Delegate Carmen Amedori, District 5A
- Delegate Charles R. Boutin, District 34A
- Delegate K. Bennett Bozman, District 38B
- Delegate John W. E. Cluster, Jr., District 8
- Delegate Norman H. Conway, District 38B
- Delegate Steven J. DeBoy, Sr., District 12A
- Delegate John P. Donoghue, District 2C
- Delegate Donald H. Dwyer, Jr., District 31
- Delegate Adelaide C. Eckardt, District 37B
- Delegate George C. Edwards, District 1A
- Delegate D. Page Elmore, District 38A
- Delegate Jeannie Haddaway, District 37B
- Delegate W. Louis Hennessy, District 28
- Delegate John R. Leopold, District 31
- Delegate Mary Ann E. Love, District 32
- Delegate Susan K. McComas, District 35B
- Delegate Robert A. McKee, District 2A
- Delegate Joseph J. Minnick, District 6
- Delegate LeRoy E. Myers, Jr., District 1C
- Delegate Anthony J. O'Donnell, District 29C
- Delegate George W. Owings, III, District 27B
- Delegate David D. Rudolph, District 34B
- Delegate Christopher B. Shank, District 2B
- Delegate Michael D. Smigiel, Sr., District 36
- Delegate Theodore Sophocleus, District 32
- Delegate Richard A. Sossi, District 36
- Delegate Paul S. Stull, District 4A
- Delegate Mary Roe Walkup, District 36
- Delegate Richard B. Weldon, Jr., District 3B
- Delegate John F. Wood, Jr., District 29A
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS -see also- PENALTIES; SENTENCES; etc.
- DEATH PENALTY
- LAW ENFORCEMENT -see also- STATE POLICE, DEPARTMENT OF
- MURDER
- SENTENCES -see also- DEATH PENALTY
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Criminal Law
- (
2-201 ,
2-202 ,
2-303
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered