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SB560: Triggerman rule; redefinition thereof.

Chief Patron

Sen. Mark Obenshain (R-26)

Mark Obenshain (R-26)
Served: 2004–

Progress

Yes Introduced
Yes Passed Committee
Yes Passed House
Yes Passed Senate
No Signed by Governor
No Became Law

Status

03/06/2008: vetoed by governor

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Summary

Redefinition of the triggerman rule.  Redefines the "triggerman rule," which currently provides that only the actual perpetrator of a capital murder is eligible for the death penalty and that accessories and principals in the second degree can be punished only as if guilty of first degree murder. This bill allows principals in the second degree and accessories before the fact to be charged as principals in the first degree in the cases of murder for hire, murder involving a continuing criminal enterprise, and terrorism. This bill allows, in all other cases of capital murder, a principal in the second degree to be tried as a principal in the first degree if he had the same intent to kill as the principal in the first degree. The bill allows an accessory before the fact to be tried as a principal in the first degree if he ordered or directed the willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing.

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