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Texas Enacts Life Without Parole Law
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2006
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2006, page 27
On June 17, 2005, Texas Governor Rick Perry signed into law legislation that allows Texas juries to sentence defendants to life without the possibility of parole in capital cases. Senate Bill 60 replaces the previous non-death-penalty option of 40 years without the possibility of parole with life without the possibility …
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