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judicial override stories
Featured Opinion
This rush to execute before revisiting a condemned practice not only appears hypocritical but also cruel.
Legislature
His new bill would allow those sentenced to death under judicial override to be resentenced.
Legislature
Judges have been barred from overriding the jury in death penalty sentencing since the Legislature passed a law to that effect in 2018.
Legislature
Rep. Chris England's bill would also apply in cases of judicial override, which the Legislature ended in 2017.
Courts
A last-second amendment meant that a ban on judges overriding the wishes of juries to impose the death penalty wouldn't be retroactive.
Featured Opinion
Gov. Kay Ivey can pause Smith’s execution giving the Legislature time to decide if a 2017 law should have been retroactive.
News
By Chip Brownlee Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY — The first bill Gov. Kay Ivey signed after becoming Governor Monday evening was a bill that...
News
By Chip Brownlee Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY — Alabama’s death penalty sentencing system, which allows judges to override a jury’s recommendation for life in...
Featured Opinion
By Joey Kennedy Alabama Political Reporter Most readers know that I oppose the death penalty. I don’t believe the State should ever take something...