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                                         SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL NO. 4685

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1986 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Human Services & Corrections (originally sponsored by Senators Wojahn, Deccio and Kreidler; by request of Department of Corrections)

Read first time 2/3/86.

AN ACT Relating to the death penalty; and amending RCW 10.95.200.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 20, chapter 138, Laws of 1981 and RCW 10.95.200 are each amended to read as follows:

          Whenever the day appointed for the execution of a defendant shall have passed, from any cause whatever, without the execution of such defendant having occurred, ((the defendant shall be returned to the trial court from which the death warrant was issued and)) the trial court which issued the original death warrant shall issue a new death warrant in accordance with RCW 10.95.160.  The defendant's presence before the court is not required.