Code of Alabama - Title 13A: Criminal Code - Section 13A-5-52 - Mitigating circumstances - Inclusion of defendant's character, record, etc

Section 13A-5-52 - Mitigating circumstances - Inclusion of defendant's character, record, etc.

In addition to the mitigating circumstances specified in Section 13A-5-51, mitigating circumstances shall include any aspect of a defendant's character or record and any of the circumstances of the offense that the defendant offers as a basis for a sentence of life imprisonment without parole instead of death, and any other relevant mitigating circumstance which the defendant offers as a basis for a sentence of life imprisonment without parole instead of death.

(Acts 1981, No. 81-178, §14.)

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