A bipartisan bill proposed in the Kentucky legislature would eliminate the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without parole for inmates sentenced to capital punishment.
The bill was filed in the Kentucky Senate in January by Democrat Sen. Gerald Neal and Republican Sens. Julie Raque Adams and Stephen Meredith.
The bill would “abolish the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without parole for inmates presently sentenced to death.”
Currently, 24 states have the death penalty, three have moratoriums imposed to stop them, and 23 plus the District of Columbia have outlawed the death penalty, according to The Death Penalty Information Center….