Alabama voters approve constitutional amendment to church stand-your-ground law News
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Alabama voters approve constitutional amendment to church stand-your-ground law

Voters in Alabama Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment that protects anyone who kills a person in self-defense in a church in Franklin and Lauderdale County.

Over 71% of voters approved the amendment.

The Stand-Your-Ground proposed amendment was first mentioned in a statement made by Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall.

The amendment comes after the attack on West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, Texas.

“Alabama, like Texas, does not impose a duty to retreat from an attacker in any place in which one is lawfully present,” Marshall said. “Alabama’s law, like Texas’s, goes further to say that an individual has a right to ‘stand his or her ground;’ so long as he or she is justified in using deadly physical force, is not engaged in illegal activity, and is in a place where he or she has a right to be located. Ala. Code §13-A-23(b).”

Amendment 3 to Alabama’s State Code, voted on in 2016, allows individual counties rather than the whole state to vote on particular amendments.

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