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2005 House Bill 5268 (Create torture crime ) (House Roll Call 551)

Passed in the House (105 to 0) on November 1, 2005, to establish a new crime of torturing another person, subject to up to life in prison. “Torture” would be defined as an intentialonal act that causes cruel or extreme physical or mental pain and suffering, inflicts great bodily injury, or inflicts severe mental pain or suffering upon another person within the violator's custody or physical control. Under current law, commission of such an act could be prosecuted under other criminal statutes, but there is no specific “torture” crime. [History, Amendments & Comments]

The vote was 105 in favor, 0 opposed, and 5 not voting
(House Roll Call 551 at House Journal 94)

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The following legislators supported 2005 House Bill 5268 (Create torture crime ):

Accavitti (D) Acciavatti (R) Adamini (D) Amos (R) Anderson (D) Angerer (D)
Ball (R) Baxter (R) Bennett (D) Bieda (D) Booher (R) Brandenburg (R)
Brown (D) Byrnes (D) Byrum (D) Casperson (R) Caswell (R) Caul (R)
Cheeks (D) Clack (D) Clemente (D) Condino (D) Cushingberry (D) DeRoche (R)
Dillon (D) Donigan (D) Drolet (R) Elsenheimer (R) Emmons (R) Espinoza (D)
Farhat (R) Farrah (D) Gaffney (R) Garfield (R) Gillard (D) Gleason (D)
Gonzales (D) Gosselin (R) Green (R) Hansen (R) Hildenbrand (R) Hood (D)
Hoogendyk (R) Hopgood (D) Huizenga (R) Hummel (R) Hune (R) Jones, Rick (R)
Kahn (R) Kolb (D) Kooiman (R) LaJoy (R) Law, David (R) Law, Kathleen (D)
Leland (D) Lemmons, III (D) Lemmons, Jr. (D) Marleau (R) Mayes (D) McConico (D)
McDowell (D) Meisner (D) Meyer (R) Miller (D) Moolenaar (R) Moore (R)
Mortimer (R) Newell (R) Nitz (R) Nofs (R) Palmer (R) Palsrok (R)
Pastor (R) Pavlov (R) Pearce (R) Plakas (D) Polidori (D) Proos (R)
Robertson (R) Rocca (R) Sak (D) Schuitmaker (R) Shaffer (R) Sheen (R)
Sheltrown (D) Smith, Alma (D) Smith, Virgil (D) Spade (D) Stahl (R) Stakoe (R)
Steil (R) Stewart (R) Taub (R) Tobocman (D) Vagnozzi (D) Van Regenmorter (R)
Vander Veen (R) Walker (R) Ward (R) Waters (D) Wenke (R) Whitmer (D)
Williams (D) Wojno (D) Zelenko (D)    

The following legislators opposed 2005 House Bill 5268 (Create torture crime ):

The following legislators did not vote on 2005 House Bill 5268 (Create torture crime ):

Hunter (D) Kehrl (D) Lipsey (D) Murphy (D) Phillips (D)

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2) 2005 House Bill 5268 (Create torture crime ) [by admin on January 1, 2001]
Introduced in the House on October 6, 2005, to establish a new crime of torturing another person, subject to up to life in prison. “Torture” would be defined as an intentialonal act that causes cruel or extreme physical or mental pain and suffering, inflicts great bodily injury, or inflicts severe mental pain or suffering upon another person within the violator's custody or physical control. Under current law, commission of such an act could be prosecuted under other criminal statutes, but there is no specific “torture” crime

The vote was 105 in favor, 0 opposed and 5 not voting

(House Roll Call 551 at House Journal 94)

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