Clarifies that only persons eighteen years of age and older may be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.
This bill amends the penal law to specify that only individuals who were eighteen years of age or older at the time of committing certain serious crimes may be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. These crimes include terrorism, criminal possession of a chemical or biological weapon in the first degree, and murder in the first or second degree. The bill takes effect immediately upon enactment.
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