The Senate Corrections and Criminal Law Committee heard SB 8, Sen. Steele’s bill to amend the death penalty statute, I.C. 35-50-2-9, to add decapitation or attempted decapitation of the victim as a death penalty aggravator. In discussion, Committee members agreed with Sen. Steele that decapitation might possibly be found to not be incorporated in the present death penalty aggravators, although its addition would arguably be as much a clarification as an addition. The bill passed 9-0.
Read the bill at http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2015/bills/senate/8.