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H.R. 848 (95th)

A bill to abolish the death penalty under all laws of the United States.

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Introduced

4 January 1977

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Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.

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Summary

States that no sentence of death shall be imposed upon any person convicted under Federal, territorial, or State law and that no unexecuted death sentence shall be carried out after the enactment of this Act. Directs that each provision authorizing or requiring the imposition of capital punishment shall be deemed to authorize or require the imposition of life imprisonment and that death sentences remaining unexecuted on the date of the enactment of this Act shall be deemed sentences of life imprisonment.

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