Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act of 2023

H.R. 1124, the Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act of 2023, would permanently end the use of the death penalty for all federal crimes. If passed, the bill would remove the death penalty as a sentencing option from the federal legal code and require that any individual currently on federal death row be resentenced to a lesser penalty. This legislation specifically targets federal and military offenses, meaning it would not directly change the capital punishment laws currently established by individual states.