HB1357 - Tennessee: Criminal Procedure, Death, General Assembly

Companion Bill SB0635. Criminal Procedure - Directs that house and senate judiciary committees should study application of death penalty in Tennessee; provides for moratorium on executions until study results are presented to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 2. Fiscal Summary for HB1357 / *SB0635Increase State Expenditures - Net Impact - $7,000 / Incarceration* $5,200 Each One Day Meeting Bill Summary for HB1357 / *SB0635 This bill places a moratorium on carrying out the death sentence, but not sentencing persons to death, from the date that this bill becomes a law through April 15, 2008. This bill requires the house and senate judiciary committees to study a defendant's access to justice and other implications of death penalty trials and to submit a report to the governor and the general [...]

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