5151 AAS 2/10/92

SB 5151 - S AMD

    BySenator Hayner

                                                   ADOPTED 2/10/92

    Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert the following:

    "Sec. 1.  RCW 10.95.180 and 1986 c 194 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) For any defendant sentenced to death for a crime committed before the effective date of this act, the punishment of death shall be supervised by the superintendent of the penitentiary and shall be inflicted ((either by hanging by the neck or, at the election of the defendant,)) by intravenous injection of a substance or substances in a lethal quantity sufficient to cause death and until the defendant is dead, or at the election of the defendant by hanging by the neck until the defendant is dead.  In any case, death shall be pronounced by a licensed physician.

    (2) For any defendant sentenced to death for a crime committed on or after the effective date of this act, the punishment of death shall be supervised by the superintendent of the penitentiary and shall be inflicted by intravenous injection of a substance or substances in a lethal quantity sufficient to cause death and until the defendant is dead.  In the event execution by lethal injection is held invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, the method of execution shall be hanging by the neck until the defendant is dead.

(3) All executions, for both men and women, shall be carried out within the walls of the state penitentiary.

(4) If any provision of this section or its application to any person is held invalid, the remainder of this section, or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances, is not affected."

SB 5151 - S AMD

    BySenator Hayner

                                                   ADOPTED 2/10/92

    On page 1, line 1 of the title, after "execution" strike "and" and after "10.95.180" insert "; and prescribing penalties"