2025 Regular Session
Link to Bill History on Legacy Website (Click Here)Summary: Relating to parole eligibility for the crime of murder in the second degree
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WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2025 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
House Bill 2357
By Delegate Kelly
[Introduced February 13, 2025 ; referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary]
A BILL to amend and reenact §61-2-3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to parole eligibility for the crime of murder in the second degree.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 2. Crimes Against The Person.
§61-2-3. Penalty for murder of second degree.
Murder of the second degree shall be punished by a definite term of imprisonment in the penitentiary which is not less than ten 15 nor more than forty 60 years. A person imprisoned pursuant to the provisions of this section is not eligible for parole prior to having served a minimum of ten 15 years of his or her sentence or the minimum period required by the §62-12-13 of this code, whichever is greater.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to modify the sentence and parole eligibility for murder in the second degree.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.