HB248 Alabama 2024 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Neil Rafferty Representative

Democrat

Session

Regular Session 2024

Title

Death penalty; execution by nitrogen hypoxia prohibited

Description

Under existing law, an individual sentenced to death shall be executed by lethal injection unless the individual elected to be executed by electrocution or nitrogen hypoxia.

Under existing law, if lethal injection is held to be an unconstitutional method of execution, an individual shall be executed by means of nitrogen hypoxia.

This bill would prohibit the state from executing an individual by means of nitrogen hypoxia.

This bill would also make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style.

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Subjects

Incarceration