According to the NJ, the bill survived attempts by Pete Schwartzkopf to undo the repeal bill and add a weighted scale of death significance, with police deaths rated as the most significant.
Via the Cape Gazette:
Dover — A bill repealing the death penalty in Delaware was voted through the state Senate Thursday, April 2.
By an 11-9 vote, Delaware’s senators passed Senate Bill 40, bipartisan legislation that replaces Delaware’s death penalty with a sentence of life without parole.
The bill was introduced March 18 by Sen. Karen Peterson, D-Stanton, mirrors a 2013 bill she sponsored that passed the Senate 11-10. That bill did not get out of committee in the House.
The legislation would end capital punishment in Delaware, except for the 15 inmates already convicted and sentenced to death row. If passed, Delaware would become the 19th state without the death penalty.
The bill now moves to the House.