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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DEATH PENALTY."
+description: "This Act eliminates the death penalty in Delaware. As such, the penalty for a person who is convicted of first-degree murder for an offense that was committed after the person’s 18th birthday is imprisonment for the remainder of the person’s natural life without benefit of probation or parole or any other reduction."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "152"
+identifier: "HB 70"
+citation: "Delaware HB 70 (152)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cyndie Romer", "David L. Wilson", "Eric Morrison", "Kendra Johnson", "Marie Pinkney", "Nicole Poore", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Russell Huxtable", "Sarah McBride", "Sean M. Lynn", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "William Bush"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 7
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-01-25"
+last_action: "2024-09-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2e6226f0-b226-44e1-980f-5af62877318e"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=129979"
+source_hash: "a8c4e55f7144fdfba76a5681cbf623d94594e4435da016a4d25913a1f22bbd56"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
+---
+
+# Delaware HB 70 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DEATH PENALTY.
+
+This Act eliminates the death penalty in Delaware. As such, the penalty for a person who is convicted of first-degree murder for an offense that was committed after the person’s 18th birthday is imprisonment for the remainder of the person’s natural life without benefit of probation or parole or any other reduction.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=129979&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB70)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **14–7** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **33–8** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
+- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
+- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
+- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
+- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
+- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
+- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
+- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
+- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
+- Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
+- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
+- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
+- William Bush — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-25** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-20** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-06-18** Passed By House. Votes: 33 YES 8 NO `passage`
+- **2024-06-18** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-06-26** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 4 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-06-27** Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 7 NO `passage`
+- **2024-09-26** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2e6226f0-b226-44e1-980f-5af62877318e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+