Two criminal-justice bills, including one reclassifying drug-overdose deaths as second-degree murders, remain pending in the Alaska Legislature after Wednesday’s adjournment of the 2023 session. (via AlaskaBeacon)
, also contains provisions that increase jail terms for drug-related crimes, as well as provisions relating to dosing of other people, such as in cases where so-called “date-rape” drugs are used to incapacitate and assault victims.
The catalyst for the involuntary confinement bill was a February 2022 stabbing, a random attack in Anchorage’s main library, that left a woman paralyzed. The assailant was a man with a history of mental-health problems and violent episodes; the victim, Angela Harris, has been Before Harris was stabbed, her assailant could have been confined for mental-health reasons, but no one filed a petition required to make that happen, said Sen. Matt Claman, D-Anchorage, the bill’s sponsor.
Originally, the confinement period would have been up to five years, but that was shortened in the committee process. While the bill passed the Senate, there was some bipartisan opposition in that body based on concerns over civil liberties.
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