HARRISBURG — Flanked by Democrats in the House and Senate, Gov. Tom Wolf took to the steps of the Capitol this week to push for more than $1 billion in
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Jim Brewster, the McKeesport Democrat, has vivid memories of going to bed in December 2011 in his Allegheny County home and waking up to find his 45th Senate District had been moved across Pennsylvania to the Poconos. Strange things can happen when politics collides with the need to re-sketch district
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More than 1,100 Pennsylvanians are serving time for second-degree murder, meaning they were convicted for a situation not their actions that comes with a life sentence without parole.
So in Pennsylvania, a person found guilty of second-degree murder can expect to die behind bars for their involvement in a felony that accidentally or unintentionally leads to murder.
“These folks are not Hannibal Lecter,” Lt. Gov. John Fetterman said during a Tuesday town hall with reform advocates. “These are individuals that may have been involved in a bad decision, terrible mistake, or something that they had no idea was going to occur.”