It seems like it is increasingly rare to see a Democrat and a Republican team up for a cause.
I don't think it's that they're on the opposite side of everything as much as they just don't want to admit they see eye to eye. You're risking political capital if people find out you think the guys on the other side are human.
The secret might be to find those who don't have much political capital left to lose.
Two former Alabama governors -- one who resigned under the threat of impeachment and one who spent time in prison -- have thrown their support behind a bill that would retroactively ban judges from overriding a jury's decision at death-penalty trials, reports AL.com's Howard Koplowitz.
The governors supporting the bill are Republican Robert Bentley and Democrat Don Siegelman.
The bill is an effort specifically to reverse instances in which juries handed down life sentences in capital-murder cases but then had judges change the sentences to death.
That's known as judicial override, and it was banned in Alabama in 2017. But the current law wasn't written to cover those who are already on Death Row as a result of a judicial override.
The bill to make the law retroactive, which will be debated in committee today, is sponsored in the House of Representatives by Chris England, a Tuscaloosa Democrat.