{"id":252003,"date":"2026-07-25T20:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T20:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252003\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T20:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T20:17:08","slug":"pennsylvania-lawmakers-miss-sentencing-law-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252003\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania lawmakers miss sentencing law deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 1,100 in Pennsylvania can seek new sentences after lawmakers miss key deadline<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/news-team\/9fdccdb3-0158-43bc-abfa-a48bfca146ce\" aria-label=\"Baylee Martin profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/9fdccdb3-0158-43bc-abfa-a48bfca146ce_1758326672.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Baylee Martin\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">About 1,100 people can now request new sentences after Pennsylvania lawmakers failed to meet a midnight deadline to pass new guidelines. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">This comes after the state Supreme Court ruled life without parole for second-degree murder unconstitutional in March. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Second-degree murder is handed down when someone is charged as an accomplice to a murder that happens during another felony like arson or robbery.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The state legislature had 120 days to decide on a mandatory minimum for those convicted of second-degree murder but that deadline has now passed. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">House lawmakers have passed a plan that would allow parole after 30 years and leave minimum sentencing guidelines to Pennsylvania&#8217;s Commission on Sentencing. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">The changes also would allow medical release for inmates. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About 1,100 in Pennsylvania can seek new sentences after lawmakers miss key deadline About 1,100 people can now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[107687,36,107683,14523,48515,105388,23747,68119,107684,107685,783,107686,107681,107682,28,30,20037,29,2781,26528,99138,16121],"class_list":["post-252003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-accomplice","tag-arson","tag-commission-on-sentencing","tag-felony","tag-house-lawmakers","tag-inmates","tag-lawmakers","tag-life-without-parole","tag-medical-release","tag-midnight-deadline","tag-murder","tag-new-guidelines","tag-new-sentences","tag-parole-after-30-years","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-lawmakers","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-robbery","tag-second-degree-murder","tag-sentencing-guidelines","tag-state-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252003","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=252003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}