CHAPTER 2. Suspension of Execution of Death Penalty: Insanity: Pregnancy

Chapter 2 added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 106.

§§ 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…