Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act

Bill: 117-s-582
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2021-03-03
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing
Latest action: action_date: 2021-03-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S1030)

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-03-03
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act</b></p> <p>This bill prohibits the imposition of a death penalty sentence for a violation of federal law.</p> <p>A person sentenced to death before enactment of this bill must be resentenced.</p>

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 582 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES March 3, 2021 Mr. Durbin (for himself, Mr. Leahy , Mr. Booker , Mr. Markey , Mr. Murphy , Ms. Warren , Mr. Van Hollen , Ms. Hirono , Mr. Kaine , Ms. Smith , Mr. Merkley , Mr. Sanders , Mr. Brown , Mr. Schatz , Ms. Klobuchar , Mrs. Gillibrand , Mr. Ossoff , and Ms. Baldwin ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To prohibit the imposition of the death penalty for any violation of Federal law, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act . 2. Prohibition on imposition of death sentence (a) In General Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person may be sentenced to death or put to death on or after the date of enactment of this Act for any violation of Federal law. (b) Persons Sentenced Before Date of Enactment Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person sentenced to death before the date of enactment of this Act for any violation of Federal law shall be resentenced.