Which candidate gave weekend passes to first-degree murderers?
"Bush supports the death penalty for first-degree murderers."
"Dukakis not only opposes the death penalty, he allowed first-degree murderers to have weekend passes from prison."
Of those, 458 were granted to inmates serving life sentences, including 21 first-degree murderers.
In 1976 the state legislature passed a bill that would have ended the furloughs of first-degree murderers.
Finally, the jury could respond to mitigating factors about the crime or the criminal and withhold the death penalty even for convicted first-degree murderers.
She is a thief on the run with a first-degree murderer.
However, under Sargent, convicted first-degree murderers were not eligible for furlough.
The Federal program does not allow furloughs for inmates serving sentences of life without parole, such as first-degree murderers.
During his first term as Governor, he had vetoed a bill that would have stopped furloughs for first-degree murderers.