Opinion ID: 1841753
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Heading: response to furman

Text: This Court's response to Furman was to commute the death sentences to life imprisonment for all defendants who had been convicted under a sentencing scheme which permitted jury discretion. Typical of the manner in which this Court handled those cases is the procedure set forth in Hubbard v. State, 290 Ala. 118, 274 So.2d 298 (1973), (first degree murder), and Swain v. State, 290 Ala. 123, 274 So.2d 305 (1973), (rape). The Alabama legislature's response to Furman was the passage of Alabama's Death Penalty Statute. Act No. 213, Reg. Sess. of 1975, Acts of Alabama, p. 701, approved September 9, 1975.