SB222 Alabama 2010 Session

Under existing law, the United States Supreme Court has ruled that the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the imposition of the death penalty on criminal defendants who were under the age of 18 at the time of the commission of the capital offense

This bill would prohibit the imposition of the death penalty for any criminal defendant who was less than 18 years old at the time of the commission of the capital offense

Relating to crimes and punishments; to provide an exemption from the death penalty for persons who were less than 18 years old at the time of the commission of the capital offense.