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The Indiana Code is the code of laws for the U.S. state of Indiana. The contents are the codification of all the laws currently in effect within Indiana. With roots going back to the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, the laws of Indiana have been revised many times.
Indiana has four homicide statutes in total, with murder being the most serious offense. Murder is defined in Indiana as either the intentional killing of another person without justification, or causing the death of someone while committing or attempting to commit a violent felony, regardless of intent to kill (the felony murder rule).
The following constitutes murder with aggravating circumstances, which is the only capital crime in Indiana. [8]The defendant committed the murder by intentionally killing the victim while committing or attempting to commit any of the following: arson, burglary, child molesting, criminal deviate conduct, kidnapping, rape, robbery, carjacking, criminal organization activity, dealing in cocaine ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Indiana since its statehood. A total of 21 people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Indiana in the United States since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1977. Before 1995, electrocution was the sole method of execution.
The Model Penal Code (MPC) is a model act designed to stimulate and assist U.S. state legislatures to update and standardize the penal law of the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The MPC was a project of the American Law Institute (ALI), and was published in 1962 after a ten-year drafting period. [ 3 ]
Indiana Code 35-38-9-2 through 35-38-9-6 allows for the expungement of misdemeanors, and non-violent felonies. Most crimes of a sexual nature are excluded from the law but each section has other specific exclusions, and anyone determined to be a Sex or Violent offender (as defined by IC 11-8-8-5) is also ineligible.
The new government, led by Prime Minister Robert Fico, has fast-tracked proposals in parliament that include scrapping a special prosecutor's office for high-profile graft cases, limiting ...
In the late 1960s, Indiana saw various reforms to the anti-abortion laws of the 1950s, which previously made it “a crime at common law to wilfully solicit and/or procure a miscarriage” or to “wilfully terminate a pregnancy except by the operation of nature.” [11] By 1967, no state had fully legalized abortion, but many states had begun the process of reforming laws in favor of ...