Under existing law, a death sentence is executed by lethal injection, unless a person sentenced to death affirmatively elects to be executed by electrocution.
This bill would require a person sentenced to death after the effective date of the act to be executed by electrocution if lethal injection is deemed unconstitutional by the courts or if an ingredient essential to carrying out a lethal injection is unavailable to the Department of Corrections.
Judiciary first Substitute Offered
Pending third reading on day 30 Favorable from Judiciary with 1 substitute
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar with 1 substitute and
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Judiciary
Engrossed
Cosponsors Added
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 64
Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 63
McCutcheon Amendment Offered
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Judiciary
Source: Alabama Legislature