Section 137.476 – Assistance by licensed health care professional or nonlicensed medically trained person.
(1) Notwithstanding any other law, a licensed health care professional or a nonlicensed medically trained person may assist the Department of Corrections in an execution carried out under ORS 137.473. (2) Any assistance rendered in an execution carried out under ORS 137.473 by a licensed health care professional or a nonlicensed medically trained person is […]
Section 137.478 – Return of death warrant after execution of sentence of death.
Not later than 30 days after the execution of a sentence of death under ORS 137.473, the superintendent of the correctional institution where the sentence was executed shall return the death warrant to the clerk of the trial court from which the warrant was issued with the superintendent’s return on the death warrant showing the […]
Section 137.482 – Service of documents on defendant.
A copy of any document filed in any of the following proceedings shall be served personally on the defendant, even if the defendant is represented by counsel, by providing the copy to the custodian of the defendant, who shall ensure that the copy is provided promptly to the defendant: (1) A death warrant hearing under […]
Section 137.464 – Administrative assessment of defendant’s mental capacity.
(1)(a) At the death warrant hearing under ORS 137.463, the court shall order that the Oregon Health Authority or its designee perform an assessment of the defendant’s mental capacity to engage in reasoned choices of legal strategies and options if: (A) The defendant indicates the wish to waive the right to counsel; and (B) The […]
Section 137.466 – Judicial determination of defendant’s mental capacity.
(1) If the court has ordered the Oregon Health Authority to perform a competency assessment of the defendant under ORS 137.464 and the assessment has been completed, the court shall determine the issue of the defendant’s mental capacity to engage in reasoned choices of legal strategies and options. If neither the state nor counsel for […]
Section 137.467 – Delivery of warrant when place of trial changed.
If the place of trial has been changed, the death warrant shall be delivered to the sheriff of the county in which the defendant was tried. [1984 c.3 §6]
Section 137.473 – Means of inflicting death; place and procedures; acquisition of lethal substance.
(1) The punishment of death shall be inflicted by the intravenous administration of a lethal quantity of an ultra-short-acting barbiturate in combination with a chemical paralytic agent and potassium chloride or other equally effective substances sufficient to cause death. The judgment shall be executed by the superintendent of the Department of Corrections institution in which […]
Section 137.390 – Commencement, term and termination of term of imprisonment in county jail; treatment of prisoners therein.
The commencement, term and termination of a sentence of imprisonment in the county jail is to be ascertained by the rule prescribed in ORS 137.370, and the manner of such confinement and the treatment of persons so sentenced shall be governed by whatever law may be in force prescribing the discipline of county jails. [Amended […]
Section 137.440 – Return by officer executing judgment; annexation to trial court file.
When a judgment in a criminal action has been executed, the sheriff or officer executing it shall return to the clerk the warrant or copy of the entry or judgment upon which the sheriff or officer acted, with a statement of the doings of the sheriff or officer indorsed thereon, and the clerk shall file […]
Section 137.450 – Enforcement of money judgment in criminal action.
A judgment against the defendant or complainant in a criminal action, so far as it requires the payment of a fine, fee, assessment, costs and disbursements of the action or restitution, may be enforced as a judgment in a civil action. [Amended by 1973 c.836 §269; 1987 c.709 §1]