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2011 Legislative Session:
At the Senate Courts of Justice Committee, Senator
Obenshain's bill (SB
1200 – redefining what is commonly referred to as the “triggerman rule”) to
extend the death penalty to accomplices in cases of murder in the commission of
rape was passed by indefinitely by a vote of 8 to 6. This means that, barring some unusual
maneuver to revive the bill, the effort to expand capital punishment in this
year’s General Assembly session has been defeated.
Click Here to see how your Senator voted on death penalty expansion in 2011.
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