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2002 SESSION
SB 10 Death Penalty Opposition Registry; created.
Introduced by: Warren E. Barry | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Death Penalty Opposition Registry. Provides that a person may devise his entire estate to the Virginia Board of Corrections expressly for use by the Board to defray the cost of life imprisonment of persons convicted of capital murder and that if a person (i) so devises his entire estate, (ii) registers his opposition to the death penalty in a Death Penalty Opposition Registry and (iii) is the victim of capital murder, the person convicted of the capital murder shall not be eligible for execution.
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HISTORY
- 01/09/02 Senate: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 12/13/01 021093400
- 01/09/02 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/23/02 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in C. J. (15-Y 0-N)