Nancy Turbak Berry on Crime

Define hate crimes by sexual orientation or gender identity

Synopsis: Vote to pass a bill that prohibits specific actions intended to intimidate or harass any person or group because of sexual orientatio or gender identity. Highlights:
• -Specifies actions which are prohibited, including:
• Causing physical injury
• Destroying or defacing real or personal property; and
• Threatening, by word or act, to engage in the aforementioned actions.

Remove requirement that physicians be present at executions

Highlights:
• Requires the warden to arrange the witnesses for executions to include the attorney general, the trial judge, and a member of the news media.
• Removes the requirement that physicians be present at executions and examine the body afterward.
• Requires the warden to prepare and sign a death certificate.