A bipartisan group of lawmakers announced Monday that they are pushing ahead with a legislative effort to bring back the death penalty in the First State after the Delaware Supreme Court last year struck down the state’s capital sentencing statute as unconstitutional.
Dubbed the Extreme Crimes Protection Act, the bill aims to address flaws that led a bare majority of Delaware’s five justices last August to rule, in the case Rauf v. State, that the scheme violated a defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to a trial by jury.
