House Bill 27 would retroactively change the sentencing of those death row inmates who were put there by a judge and not the jury.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - A bill specifically to help more than two dozen inmates on Alabama’s death row is back up for discussion in the state Legislature.
“Justice demands us to afford those individuals who are still on death row, who were there from a judicial override, the opportunity to be resentenced,” said Alabama state Rep. Chris England.is one of the 33 affected by this bill. He was convicted of murder in 1994 while advocates say no evidence directly linked him to the crime scene.
“I understand if you sit him on the row forever, whatever, life without. But the death penalty and all that, I just feel like that’s wrong in the sense the way I just feel like we just shouldn’t take another man or woman’s life,” said Myers’ son LeAndrew Hood., who would have reaped the benefits of the judicial override.
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