Kentucky Senate Bill 101

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on February 4 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-02-06 - to Judiciary (S)
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to abolish the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without parole for inmates presently sentenced to death; amend KRS 532.030 to remove the death penalty; amend KRS 640.040 to prohibit life imprisonment without benefit of parole for a juvenile offender convicted of a capital offense; amend KRS 640.010 to define "serious intellectual disability" and "significant subaverage general intellectual functioning"; amend KRS 422.285, 532.050, 532.100, and 533.010 to conform; repeal KRS 431.213, 431.2135, 431.218, 431.220, 431.223, 431.224, 431.240, 431.250, 431.260, 431.270, 507A.060, 532.025, 532.075, 532.130, 532.135, 532.140, 532.300, 532.305, and 532.309.

AN ACT relating to the abolition of the death penalty.

Sen. Gerald Neal [D]

Sen. Karen Berg [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-02-06	Senate	to Judiciary (S)
2025-02-04	Senate	to Committee on Committees (S)
2025-02-04	Senate	introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/25RS/sb101.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/25RS/sb101/orig_bill.pdf
Supplement	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/25RS/sb101/CI.pdf