{"id":248998,"date":"2026-07-22T02:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248998\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T02:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:50:07","slug":"pennsylvania-lawmakers-face-friday-deadline-on-life-without-parole-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248998\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania lawmakers face Friday deadline on life without parole ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPennsylvania lawmakers are facing a Friday deadline to respond to a state Supreme Court ruling that declared mandatory life without parole sentences for second-degree murder convictions unconstitutional.  District attorneys across the state are urging the legislature to pass a law before the deadline, saying the absence of sentencing guidelines could lead to inconsistent outcomes across counties.Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday said, &#8220;Hundreds convicted could be released if lawmakers don&#8217;t do something.&#8221;\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania lawmakers are facing a Friday deadline to respond to a state Supreme Court ruling that declared mandatory life without parole sentences for second-degree murder convictions unconstitutional.  <\/p>\n<p>District attorneys across the state are urging the legislature to pass a law before the deadline, saying the absence of sentencing guidelines could lead to inconsistent outcomes across counties.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday said, &#8220;Hundreds convicted could be released if lawmakers don&#8217;t do something.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania lawmakers are facing a Friday deadline to respond to a state Supreme Court ruling that declared mandatory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[106566,106567,28,8526,30,20037,29,16121,98952],"class_list":["post-248998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-friday-deadline","tag-parole-ruling","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-attorney-general-dave-sunday","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-lawmakers","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-state-supreme-court","tag-state-supreme-court-ruling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}