SB 898 – Allows the Department of Corrections to determine the manner of executions rather than requiring executions be by lethal gas or injection

• Sponsor: Schaefer
• LR Number: 6142S.02I
• Committee: Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence
• Last Action: 3/6/2014 - Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
• Journal Page: S483
• Effective Date: Emergency clause

Current Bill Summary

SB 898 - Under current law, the death penalty may only be administered by lethal gas or injection. This act provides that the manner of inflicting the punishment of death shall be determined by the Department of Corrections.

This act contains an emergency clause.

MEGHAN LUECKE