Pa. Senate moves toward adopting bills on data centers, second-degree murder

Pa. Senate moves toward adopting bills on data centers, second-degree murder

HARRISBURG — Legislation empowering local government to enact an optional 18-month moratorium on data center developments, along with a separate measure to institute a 35-year minimum sentence for second-degree murder, each advanced within the Pennsylvania Senate late Saturday.

Attorney General Sunday Urges Pa. House to Take Action on New ‘Felony Murder’ Statute, or Risk Release of Hundreds of Convicted Murderers - PA Office of Attorney General

HARRISBURG — As the Pennsylvania Legislature completes a fiscal year budget, Attorney General Dave Sunday emphasizes another looming deadline that presents an imminent threat to public safety if members of the state House of Representatives fail to act in a timely manner. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania earlier this year issued an opinion holding mandatory life sentences unconstitutional for those convicted of second-degree murder — commonly c…