File Code: Criminal Law - Procedure
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegate Kach
- Entitled:
-
Death Penalty - Aggravating Circumstances - Callous Disregard for
Life
Expanding the list of aggravating circumstances to be considered by a
court or jury in a death penalty case to include a murder that was
committed in a manner that exhibited a callous disregard for human
life and in a way in which a rational person with ample time and
adequate opportunity to reconsider would have abandoned the act.
House Action
- 1/31
- First Reading Judiciary
- 2/5
- Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/5
- Hearing cancelled
- 3/10
- Withdrawn
Senate Action
- No Action
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS -see also- PENALTIES; SENTENCES
- DEATH PENALTY
- MURDER
- SENTENCES -see also- DEATH PENALTY
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Article - 27 Crimes and Punishments
- (
413 ,
413
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
