A Senate committee on Thursday may unwittingly have opened the door to a legal challenge to overturn Georgia’s death penalty law.
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to remove the proportionality review requirement from death penalty cases. In the reviews, the state Supreme Court assesses whether a death penalty sentence is proportionate to the severity of the crime. The intent is to prevent the arbitrary application of the death penalty, said Brian Kammer, executive director of the Georgia Resource Center, a nonprofit group that represents defendants in capital cases.
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