Strong Sentences for Safer D.C. Streets Act of 2025

This bill sets new mandatory minimum prison sentences for certain crimes in Washington, D.C. It requires life imprisonment without parole for first-degree murder and allows people under 18 to receive this sentence. The bill creates new mandatory minimum sentences of 10 years for second-degree murder and kidnapping, and 25 years for first-degree sexual abuse and rape. It also increases existing mandatory minimum sentences for several crimes, including raising burglary from 5 to 10 years, unarmed carjacking from 7 to 10 years, armed carjacking from 15 to 20 years, and repeat rape offenses from 7 to 30 years.

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