By: Ellis S.B. No. 1832
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to notice to inmates and their attorneys of lethal
substance or substances to be used in lethal injection.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Article 43.14 of the Texas Code of Criminal
Procedure is amended to read as follows:
Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Art 43.14 Execution of Convict.
Whenever the sentence of death is pronounced against a convict, the
sentence shall be executed at any time after the hour of 6 pm. On
the day set for the execution, by intravenous injection of a
substance or substances in a lethal quantity sufficient to cause
death and until such convict is dead, such execution procedure to be
determined and supervised by the director of the correctional
institutions division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
The director shall notify the inmate and his attorney, in writing,
of the lethal substance or substances to be used, and the source for
and expiration date of same, no less than 30 days before the
scheduled execution.