Section 15-18-80 Issuance and delivery of warrant for execution; delivery of condemned person; return of receipt; compensation of sheriff. (a) Whenever any person is sentenced to death, the clerk of the court in which the sentence is pronounced shall, within 10 days after sentence has been pronounced, issue a warrant under the seal of the […]
Section 15-18-81 Confinement until execution; certain persons may visit condemned person. Upon the receipt of a condemned person by the warden of Holman prison, he shall be confined therein until the time for his execution arrives; and, while so confined, all persons outside the said prison shall be denied access to him, except his physician […]
Section 15-18-82 When, where, and by whom executions conducted. (a) Where the sentence of death is pronounced against a convict, the sentence shall be executed at any hour on the day set for the execution, not less than 30 nor more than 100 days from the date of sentence, as the court may adjudge, by […]
Section 15-18-82.1 Methods of execution; election of method; constitutionality. (a) A death sentence shall be executed by lethal injection, unless the person sentenced to death affirmatively elects to be executed by electrocution or nitrogen hypoxia. The sentence shall be executed pursuant to Section 15-18-82. (b) A person convicted and sentenced to death for a capital […]
Section 15-18-83 Persons who may be present at execution. (a) The following persons may be present at an execution and none other: (1) The executioner and any persons necessary to assist in conducting the execution. (2) The Commissioner of Corrections or his or her representative. (3) Two physicians, including the prison physician. (4) The spiritual […]
Section 15-18-84 Rearrest and execution of person escaping before execution. (a) If a condemned person escapes after sentence and before his delivery to the warden from Holman prison and is not rearrested until after the time fixed for execution, any person may arrest and commit him to the jail of the county in which he […]
Section 15-18-85 Return of execution warrant, certificate and statements; payment for transportation of body. (a) When execution of sentence is suspended or respited to another date, the same shall be noted on the warrant for execution, and on the arrival of such date the warden shall proceed with such execution, but if the condemned person […]
Section 15-18-86 Procedure when condemned female believed pregnant. (a) If there is reason to believe that a female convict is pregnant, the sheriff must, with the concurrence of a judge of the circuit court, summon a jury of six disinterested persons, as many of whom must be physicians as practicable. The sheriff must also give […]
