A bill awaiting Alabama lawmakers in their 2026 legislative session would broaden the state’s capital murder law to more easily include fatal shootings like the one in Montgomery over the weekend.

Rep. Matt Simpson’s House Bill 20 would add to the current capital offense statute “murder when the defendant knowingly creates a great risk of death to multiple persons.”

“(In cases) where you’re putting multiple people in danger,I believe capital murder should be included,” Simpson, R-Daphne, told Alabama Daily News on Tuesday.

State law currently says the murder of two or more people in one act is a capital offense. Police have said multiple gunmen fired shots in downtown Montgomery Saturday. They’ve not yet said if one or two people killed the two victims, 43-year-old Shalanda Williams a

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