TITLE 3. EXECUTION OF DEATH PENALTY [3600. - 3706.]

Title 3 added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 106.

§§ 3600–3706 · 15 sections

1. CHAPTER 1. Executing Death Penalty §§ 3600–3607 · 9 sections

   • § 3600 Every male person, upon whom has been imposed the judgment of death, shall be delivered to the warden of the California state prison designated by the…
   • § 3601 Every female person, upon whom has been imposed the judgment of death, shall be delivered to the warden of the Central California Women’s Facility, there to be…
   • § 3602 Upon the affirmance of her appeal, the female person sentenced to death shall thereafter be delivered to the warden of the California state prison designated…
   • § 3603 The judgment of death shall be executed within the walls of the California State Prison at San Quentin.
   • § 3604 (a) The punishment of death shall be inflicted by the administration of a lethal gas or by an intravenous injection of a substance or substances in a lethal…
   • § 3604.1 (a) The Administrative Procedure Act shall not apply to standards, procedures, or regulations promulgated pursuant to Section 3604. The department shall make…
   • § 3604.3 (a) A physician may attend an execution for the purpose of pronouncing death and may provide advice to the department for the purpose of developing an…
   • § 3605 (a) The warden of the state prison where the execution is to take place shall be present at the execution and shall, subject to any applicable requirement or…
   • § 3607 After the execution, the warden must make a return upon the death warrant to the clerk of the court by which the judgment was rendered, showing the time, mode,…
2. CHAPTER 2. Suspension of Execution of Death Penalty: Insanity: Pregnancy §§ 3700–3706 · 6 sections

   • § 3700 When a court enters an order appointing a day upon which a judgment of death shall be executed upon an incarcerated person, the warden of the state prison to…
   • § 3701 (a) If, after an execution date has been set, there is good reason to believe that an incarcerated person under judgment of death has become incompetent to be…
   • § 3702 (a) The prosecuting agency and the incarcerated person under sentence of death may produce witnesses at any hearing held regarding a petition filed pursuant to…
   • § 3703 (a) On decision of a petition filed pursuant to Section 3701, the court shall issue a statement explaining the legal and factual basis for the decision. (b) If…
   • § 3705 If there is good reason to believe that a female against whom a judgment of death is rendered is pregnant, such proceedings must be had as are provided in…
   • § 3706 If it is found that the female is not pregnant, the warden must execute the judgment; if it is found that she is pregnant the warden must suspend the execution…