Alabama this week passed a new law that gives juries the final call regarding whether to use the death penalty in capital murder cases.

In her first week on the job, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a bill into law on Tuesday that eliminates the judicial override of juries’ recommendations regarding death sentences. Before the law was approved, Alabama was the only state that allowed judges to supersede juries in imposing the death penalty. More than 100 people were sentenced to death since 1976 as a result of a judicial override, according to Alabama Media Group.