2026 Regular Session
HB 1293
Capital rape; authorize life imprisonment or death penalty for crime of.
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Bill overview
An act to amend section 97-3-65, mississippi code of 1972, to create the crime of capital rape when damage to sexual organs of a child under 12 years of age occurs; To amend section 97-3-71, mississippi code of 1972, to conform to the preceding section; And for related purposes.
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