An act relating to crimes and punishments, the official text

1                              STATE OF OKLAHOMA

2   1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)

3 HOUSE BILL 1307               By: Humphrey

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6                               AS INTRODUCED

7   An Act relating to crimes and punishments; amending

    21 O.S. 2021, Section 701.9, which relates to

8   penalties for murder; establishing penalty for

    certain persons convicted of murder in the first

9   degree; and providing an effective date.

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12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:

13  SECTION 1.      AMENDATORY  21 O.S. 2021, Section 701.9, is

14 amended to read as follows:

15  Section 701.9. A. 1. A person who is convicted of or pleads

16 guilty or nolo contendere to murder in the first degree shall be

17 punished by death, by imprisonment for life without parole or by

18 imprisonment for life. A person who is convicted of or pleads

19 guilty or nolo contendere to murder in the first degree, as

20 described in subsection E of Section 701.7 of this title, shall be

21 punished by death or by life without parole and absent an

22 overwhelming amount of mitigating evidence shall not be entitled to

23 or afforded the benefit of receiving imprisonment for life or

24 deferment of the sentence.

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1   2. A foreign-born person who, at the time of committing murder

2 in the first degree, was present in the United States without valid

3 immigration documentation or violated the terms of his or her

4 admission to the United States, is convicted of or pleads guilty or

5 nolo contendere to murder in the first degree shall be punished by

6 death.

7   B. A person who is convicted of or pleads guilty or nolo

8 contendere to murder in the second degree shall be guilty of a

9 felony punishable by imprisonment in the custody of the Department

10 of Corrections for not less than ten (10) years nor more than life.

11  SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.

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13  60-1-10079      GRS  01/04/25

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