RS 15:567 – Conditions precedent to execution A. Whenever the Supreme Court of Louisiana affirms a sentence of death, after review on appeal provided by Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure Article 905.9, the court of original jurisdiction shall cause to be forwarded to the secretary of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections a certified […]
RS 15:567.1 – Mental incompetence to proceed to execution A. A person who is not competent to proceed to execution may not be executed. B. A person is not competent to proceed to execution when a defendant presently lacks the competence to understand that he is to be executed, and the reason he is to […]
RS 15:568 – Execution of death sentence; prior confinement of offender The secretary of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, or a competent person selected by him, shall execute the offender in conformity with the death warrant issued in the case. Until the time of his execution, the Department of Public Safety and Corrections […]
RS 15:569 – Place for execution of death sentence; manner of execution A. Every sentence of death executed in this state prior to September 15, 1991, shall be by electrocution, that is, causing to pass through the body of the person convicted a current of electricity of sufficient intensity to cause death, and the application […]
RS 15:569.1 – Hours for execution of death sentence Every sentence of death imposed in this state shall be executed between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. upon the date set for the execution by the court of original jurisdiction. Added by Acts 1952, No. 160, §1. Amended by Acts 1980, No. 518, […]
RS 15:570 – Execution; officials and witnesses; minors excluded; time of execution; notice to victim’s relatives A. Every execution of the death sentence shall take place in the presence of: (1) The warden of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, or a competent person selected by him. (2) The coroner of the parish of West […]
RS 15:571 – Proces verbal of execution; attesting and filing When the sentence shall have been executed, the warden of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, or his deputy performing the execution, shall make a proces verbal of said execution immediately thereafter, which proces verbal shall recite the manner and date of said execution and […]
