When Alabama first enacted Assisted Suicide legislation in 2017 which specifically provided that it amended existing law and also created a new crime, should it not apply to Petitioner who was convicted of murder for hire and remains in prison 30 years later for being hired by the deceased to assist with his own suicide?

QUESTION PRESENTED I. When Alabama first enacted Assisted Suicide legislation in 2017 which specifically provided that it amended existing law and also created a new crime, should it not apply to Petitioner who was convicted of murder for hire and remains in prison 30 years later for being hired by the deceased to assist with his own suicide? [Code of Alabama, §§ 22-8B-1 et seq. and/or HB 96, Act 231, 2017 Reg. Session]