Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act

Bill: 117-hr-262
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Pressley, Ayanna [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2021-01-11
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing
Latest action: action_date: 2021-03-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-01-11
action_desc: Introduced in House
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: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 262 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 11, 2021 Ms. Pressley (for herself, Ms. Adams , Ms. Barragán , Ms. Bass , Mrs. Beatty , Mr. Bishop of Georgia , Mr. Blumenauer , Ms. Bonamici , Mr. Bowman , Mr. Brown , Ms. Bush , Mr. Butterfield , Ms. Clark of Massachusetts , Ms. Clarke of New York , Mr. Cleaver , Mr. Connolly , Mr. Cooper , Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois , Ms. Dean , Ms. DeGette , Ms. DelBene , Mr. DeSaulnier , Mr. Evans , Mr. García of Illinois , Mr. Hastings , Ms. Jayapal , Mr. Jeffries , Mr. Johnson of Georgia , Mr. Jones , Ms. Kaptur , Mr. Khanna , Mr. Kildee , Mr. Gomez , Mrs. Lawrence , Ms. Lee of California , Mr. Lieu , Ms. Lofgren , Mr. Lowenthal , Mr. Malinowski , Ms. McCollum , Mr. McGovern , Mr. Meeks , Ms. Moore of Wisconsin , Ms. Norton , Ms. Ocasio-Cortez , Ms. Omar , Mr. Pallone , Ms. Pingree , Mr. Pocan , Mr. Raskin , Mr. Rush , Mr. Sarbanes , Ms. Scanlon , Ms. Schakowsky , Mr. Smith of Washington , Ms. Spanberger , Mr. Thompson of Mississippi , Ms. Tlaib , Mrs. Trahan , Mr. Trone , Ms. Velázquez , Mrs. Watson Coleman , Mr. Welch , and Ms. Wild ) introduced the following bill; which was 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.