SF0004 • 2007

Lethal injection.

AN ACT relating to criminal procedure; modifying the method of execution by lethal injection as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor: Senator Schiffer
Last action: 2007-02-15
Official status: enrolled
Effective date: 2/15/2007

Plain English Breakdown

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Bill History

2007-02-15 LSO
Assigned Chapter Number - 24
2007-02-15 Governor
Governor Signed SEA0008
2007-02-13 House
H Speaker Signed SEA No. 8
2007-02-13 Senate
S President Signed SEA No. 0008
2007-02-12 LSO
Assigned Number SEA0008
2007-02-12 House
H Passed 3rd Reading
2007-02-09 House
H Passed 2nd Reading
2007-02-08 House
H Passed CoW
2007-02-06 House
H Placed on General File
2007-02-06 House
H01 Recommended Do Pass
2007-01-31 House
H Introduced and Referred to H01
2007-01-18 House
H Received for Introduction
2007-01-18 Senate
S Passed 3rd Reading
2007-01-17 Senate
S Passed 2nd Reading
2007-01-16 Senate
S Passed CoW
2007-01-15 Senate
S Placed on General File
2007-01-15 Senate
S01 Recommended Do Pass
2007-01-10 Senate
S Introduced and Referred to S01
2007-01-09 Senate
S Received for Introduction
2006-11-27 LSO
Bill Number Assigned

Official Summary Text

2007 General Session Summary for SF0004

Bill No.:
SF0004
Drafter:

DJP

LSO No.:
07LSO-0317
Effective Date:

2/15/2007

Enrolled Act No.:
SEA0008

Chapter No.:
24

Prime Sponsor:
Senator
Schiffer

Catch Title:
Lethal
injection.

Subject:
Chemicals used
for lethal injection

Summary/Major Elements:

Under current Wyoming law, a sentence of death is carried out by the injection of a "lethal quantity
of an ultra-short-acting barbiturate in combination with a chemical paralytic
agent."

This bill brings Wyoming's statute into line with a number of other states by requiring that the execution
protocol for intravenous injection be expanded to include "potassium
chloride or other equally effective substances sufficient to cause death".

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text

WORKING DRAFT

ORIGINAL SENATE

FILE

NO.
0004

ENROLLED ACT NO. 8, SENATE

FIFTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
WYOMING
2007 GENERAL SESSION

AN ACT relating to
criminal procedure; modifying the method of execution by lethal injection as specified;
and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Wyoming
:

Section 1.
W.S. 7
‑
13
‑
904(a) is amended to read:

7
‑
13
‑
904.

Method of execution.

(a)

When sentence of death is imposed by the court in any criminal case, the punishment of death shall be executed by the administration of a continuous intravenous injection of a lethal quantity of an ultra
-
short
-
acting barbiturate in combination with a chemical paralytic agent
and potassium chloride or other equally effective substances sufficient to cause death
, until death is pronounced by a licensed physician according to accepted standards of medical practice. The sentence of death shall be executed within the time prescribed by law, unless, for cause shown, the court or governor extends the time. Administration of the injection does not constitute the practice of medicine.

Section 2.
This act is effective immediately upon co
m
pletion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constit
u
tion.

(END)

Speaker of the House

President of the Senate

Governor

TIME APPROVED: _________

DATE APPROVED: _________

I hereby certify that this act originated in the Senate.

Chief Clerk