Tom Harman
- Republican
Author
Existing law provides that a person sentenced to death shall have the opportunity to elect to have the punishment imposed by lethal gas or by an intravenous lethal injection of a nonspecified substance or substances by standards established under the direction of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. If no election is made, the penalty of death shall be imposed by lethal injection. This bill would specify that, on or after January 1, 2013, the substance to be used for the lethal injection shall be an ultra-short-acting barbiturate or other similar drug, not to be used in combination with a chemical paralytic. The bill would require the department to develop and implement a lethal injection protocol for this drug to be available for use on and after January 1, 2013. The bill would delete the requirement that the lethal injection be intravenous.
From committee without further action.
Held in committee and under submission.
Set for hearing May 27.
(Suspense - for vote only.)
Placed on APPR suspense file.
Set for hearing May 3.
From committee: Do pass, but first be re-referred to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3308.) Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Set for hearing April 20.
Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Set for hearing April 13.
To Com. on PUB. S.
From print. May be acted upon on or after March 13.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| SB1018 | HTML |
| 02/10/10 - Introduced | |
| 03/23/10 - Amended Senate |
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