VA SB560 | 2008 | Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill 560 (Prior Session Legislation)

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Vetoed on March 6 2008 - 100% progression
Action: 2008-03-07 - Senate: Senate sustained Governor's veto

Summary

Redefinition of the triggerman rule. Redefines the "triggerman rule," which currently provides that only the actual perpetrator of a capital murder is eligible for the death penalty and that accessories and principals in the second degree can be punished only as if guilty of first degree murder. This bill allows principals in the second degree and accessories before the fact to be charged as principals in the first degree in the cases of murder for hire, murder involving a continuing criminal enterprise, and terrorism. This bill allows, in all other cases of capital murder, a principal in the second degree to be tried as a principal in the first degree if he had the same intent to kill as the principal in the first degree. The bill allows an accessory before the fact to be tried as a principal in the first degree if he ordered or directed the willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing. This bill is identical to

Title

Triggerman rule; redefinition thereof.

History

Date	Chamber	Action
2008-03-07		Senate: Senate sustained Governor's veto
2008-03-07		Senate: Motion to pass in enrolled form rejected (24-Y 16-N)
2008-03-06		Governor: Vetoed by Governor
2008-02-26		Senate: Signed by President
2008-02-25		House: Signed by Speaker
2008-02-25		Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB560ER)
2008-02-25		Senate: Enrolled
2008-02-22		House: VOTE: --- PASSAGE (78-Y 17-N)
2008-02-22		House: Passed House (78-Y 17-N)
2008-02-22		House: Read third time
2008-02-21		House: Passed by for the day
2008-02-20		House: Passed by for the day
2008-02-19		House: Read second time
2008-02-15		House: Reported from Courts of Justice (17-Y 2-N)
2008-02-14		House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
2008-02-12		House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2008-02-12		House: Read first time
2008-02-12		House: Placed on Calendar
2008-02-05		Senate: Communicated to House
2008-02-05		Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (24-Y 14-N)
2008-02-04		Senate: Read second time and engrossed
2008-02-01		Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2008-01-30		Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (8-Y 7-N)
2008-01-14		Senate: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
2008-01-09		Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2008-01-09		Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 086244288