532.140 Offender with a serious intellectual disability not subject to execution -- Authorized sentences.

KY Rev Stat § 532.140 (2019) (N/A)
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532.140 Offender with a serious intellectual disability not subject to execution -- Authorized sentences. (1) KRS 532.010, 532.025, and 532.030 to the contrary notwithstanding, no offender who has been determined to be an offender with a serious intellectual disability under the provisions of KRS 532.135, shall be subject to execution. The same procedure as required in KRS 532.025 and 532.030 shall be utilized in determining the sentence of the offender with a serious intellectual disability under the provisions of KRS 532.135 and 532.140. (2) The provisions of KRS 532.135 and 532.140 do not preclude the sentencing of an offender with a serious intellectual disability to any other sentence authorized by KRS 532.010, 532.025, or 532.030 for a crime which is a capital offense. (3) The provisions of KRS 532.135 and 532.140 shall apply only to trials commenced after July 13, 1990. Effective: July 12, 2012 History: Amended 2012 Ky. Acts ch. 146, sec. 135, effective July 12, 2012. -- Created 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 488, sec. 3, effective July 13, 1990.