republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/hb-70.md

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Bill	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.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	HB 70	Delaware HB 70 (152)	bill		enacted	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	1	7	2	2023-01-25	2024-09-26	openstates	ocd-bill/2e6226f0-b226-44e1-980f-5af62877318e	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=129979	a8c4e55f7144fdfba76a5681cbf623d94594e4435da016a4d25913a1f22bbd56	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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

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; origin ocd-bill/2e6226f0-b226-44e1-980f-5af62877318e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).