MS Office of Capital Post-Conviction Counsel; clarify the practice limitations of.

HB 1218 clarifies the scope of representation for Mississippi's Office of Capital Post-Conviction Counsel, which handles legal challenges for death row inmates. The bill specifies that the office must exclusively represent death penalty defendants in post-conviction proceedings (including federal habeas corpus cases) until execution or sentence reversal, and may only represent non-death penalty indigent clients under strict resource and claim conditions. It also mandates that office attorneys cannot work on other cases, participate in capital murder trials or appeals, or engage in death penalty lobbying. The bill died in committee in February 2025 and never became law.