A committee in the legislature of the nation's number one execution state is set to take up the issue of the death penalty on Tuesday, March 29. The Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence will hold a hearing Tuesday March 29 on several death penalty related bills, including a moratorium on executions (HB 1641 by Dutton), abolition of the death penalty (HB 852 by Dutton and HB 819 by Farrar), prohibiting death sentences in Law of Parties cases (HB 855 and HB 2511 both by Dutton) and requiring separate trials in capital cases (HB 2200 by Miles).
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