CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        SENATE BILL 5500

                        54th Legislature

                      1996 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate February 2, 1996   YEAS 45   NAYS 3 President of the Senate Passed by the House March 1, 1996   YEAS 92   NAYS 5

CERTIFICATE I, Marty Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5500 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Speaker of the       House of Representatives

Secretary

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

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Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                         SENATE BILL 5500

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             Passed Legislature - 1996 Regular Session

State of Washington      54th Legislature     1995 Regular Session

By Senators Smith, Long and Gaspard; by request of Attorney General

Read first time 01/25/95.  Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.

Clarifying the method of execution to be used in Washington state.

    AN ACT Relating to the method of execution; amending RCW 10.95.180; and prescribing penalties.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

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

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected.

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