Alabama lawmakers reject bill allowing some death row inmates to be resentenced [Video]

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) – An Alabama House committee rejected a bill that would have impacted sentences for dozens of death row inmates.

The proposal would have required courts to resentence people sentenced to death by a judge who overrode a jury’s recommendation of life in prison.

That practice was outlawed in 2017.

Representative Chris England passionately argued it should be retroactively applied for more than 30 death row inmates who were sentenced to death over a jury’s recommendation.

“We just created immunity for doctors to protect them to do it retroactively for IVF. It’s like we do things out of convenience instead of for justice. It means we can be malleable when we apply these standards,” said England.

England’s bill was rejected by a 9 to 4 vote in the House Judiciary Committee.

That rejection just crushed what hope advocates had for a man who has spent 30 years on death row.

Robin “Rocky” Myers was convicted of …