{"id":264535,"date":"2013-06-22T07:56:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T12:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=264535"},"modified":"2013-06-23T16:12:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T21:12:39","slug":"schaefer-adds-amendment-to-capital-murder-measure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=264535","title":{"rendered":"Schaefer Adds Amendment to Capital Murder Measure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=264536\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-264536\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/06\/thumb_matt-schaeffer-1.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_matt-schaeffer-1\" width=\"92\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-264536\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; Republican State Rep. Matt Schaefer of Tyler adds his voice to legislative activity involving capital murder punishment.   The Texas House on Friday tentatively approved a revised bill adjusting the sentence for 17-year-olds who commit capital murder, adding life without parole as an option even though the U.S. Supreme Court earlier banned that punishment.  According to a news release, Schaefer successfully proposed an amendment to Senate Bill 23, which ultimately passed by a vote of 110-28.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis (amended) bill preserves life without parole for the worst 17-year-old offenders,\u201d said Schaefer, who proposed adding the no-parole option back into law. \u201cThis bill without my amendment will take life without parole off the table \u2014 basically say when a heinous act occurs, we wouldn\u2019t have the option of saying this person will be taken out of society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The issue was added to the special session due to a fact that a year ago, the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional a sentence of life without parole for 17-year-olds convicted of capital murder charges in an Alabama case. That barred Texas\u2019 punishment as well as those in other states.  The amended bill must still be approved in a final House vote, expected on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Republican State Rep. Matt Schaefer of Tyler adds his voice to legislative activity involving capital murder punishment. The Texas House on Friday tentatively approved a revised bill adjusting the sentence for 17-year-olds who commit capital murder, adding life without parole as an option even though the U.S. Supreme Court earlier banned that punishment. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=264535\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Schaefer Adds Amendment to Capital Murder Measure<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-07 10:45:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264535"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264698,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264535\/revisions\/264698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}