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By DEL. ANDY GUEST
R-31»t
Half-time clocked in at midnight last Tuesday in the General Assembly - this was the deadline when the House and Senate have to complete work on their own bills in order to send them on to the other side for “further action before they go to the •governor for his signature. *£ Controversy erupts each session ^in both legislative bodies and sometimes
the issue addressed deals with Jihe same subject, but the approach •to the problem is different — for exjjunple, capital murder and the penalties.
»-* The House of Delegates passed a * bill this week which permits judges to sentence convicted felons, found guilty of murder, to life imprisonment without opportunity of parole for 25 years.
Attempts were made in the House to toughen the law even further to life in prison without parole, or at the very least 45 years before consideration for parole. But those ^efforts failed in favor of the 25-year limit. This bill was passed in the jHouse by a vote of 95 to 2. It is now in the Senate for consideration, where the controversy is sure to continue. b The Senate, on the other hand, , has dealt with the issue of capital •murder by addressing the penalty of ^electrocution. A bill has been sent to ^the House which allows a death row £felon the choice of methods of execution. This new initiative is death by lethal injection, which is already being used in some other states. Some believe that this method of capital punishment is more humane to the individual and to the family.
Every session produces issues
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