A state lawmaker who sponsors bills every year to try to reform Alabama’s sentencing laws wants to put a proposal on the ballot for voters.

Rep. Chris England, D-Tuscaloosa, is sponsoring a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow Alabama voters to decide whether to keep the death penalty.

England said he opposes the death penalty fundamentally and because of inequities in the judicial system and in the way it is carried out.

“I think many people say all the time - I think it’s true - that our power derives from the people that we represent,” said England, an attorney who serves on the Alabama House Judiciary Committee.

“So I think that we should also afford the state of Alabama the opportunity to tell us once and for all, ‘Do we want the state to continue to kill people on o

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