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Senate Bill 94, a controversial California bill that would have freed some convicted felons serving life sentences, has stalled in the legislature and will not be moving forward.

MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- California lawmakers killed a bill that could have reduced the sentences of those sentenced to death or life in prison without the possibility of parole. Senate ...

The report said that, as of Sept. 30, 2019, 1,166 people were in Pennsylvania prisons serving life-without-parole sentences for second-degree, or felony, murder.

The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday upheld lifetime prison sentences given to people convicted of felony murder prior to a 2021 change to state law that capped such sentences at 48 years.

Shapiro, who has long called the mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole for felony murder unjust and unconstitutional, approved the commutation Friday, said Manuel Bonder ...