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Last action · March 2, 2026

To Committee On Committees (S)

Introduced March 2, 2026

Senate

Adjourned Sine Die

2026 Regular Session

SB350

AN ACT relating to the abolition of the death penalty.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to abolish the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without parole for inmates presently sentenced to death; amend KRS 532.030 to remove the death penalty; amend KRS 640.040 to prohibit life imprisonment without benefit of parole for a juvenile offender convicted of a capital offense; amend KRS 640.010 to define "serious intellectual disability" and "significant subaverage general intellectual functioning"; amend KRS 422.285, 532.050, 532.100, and 533.010 to conform; repeal KRS 431.213, 431.2135, 431.218, 431.220, 431.223, 431.224, 431.240, 431.250, 431.260, 431.270, 507A.060, 532.025, 532.075, 532.130, 532.135, 532.140, 532.300, 532.305, and 532.309.

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This bill would end the use of the death penalty in Kentucky and replace it with life in prison without the possibility of parole as the most severe punishment available. People currently on death row would have their sentences changed to life without parole. The bill also includes provisions related to juvenile offenders convicted of capital crimes and updates legal definitions around intellectual disability. Who it may affect: people currently on death row, juvenile offenders convicted of capital crimes, crime victims and their families, and the Kentucky court and corrections systems.

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