Bipartisan Bill to Abolish Death Penalty Is Filed in Kentucky

Bipartisan Bill to Abolish Death Penalty Is Filed in Kentucky
The gurney in Huntsville, Texas, where Texas's condemned are strapped down to receive a lethal dose of drugs in this May 27, 2008 file photo. Pat Sullivan/AP Photo
Chase Smith
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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.

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