2016 Idaho Statutes
Title 19 - CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
Chapter 27 - EXECUTION
Section 19-2716 - INFLICTION OF DEATH PENALTY.

ID Code § 19-2716 (2016) What's This?

19-2716. Infliction of death penalty. The punishment of death shall be inflicted by continuous, intravenous administration of a lethal quantity of a substance or substances approved by the director of the Idaho department of correction until death is pronounced by a coroner or a deputy coroner. The director of the Idaho department of correction shall determine the procedures to be used in any execution. This act shall apply to all executions carried out on and after the effective date of this enactment, irrespective of the date sentence was imposed.

History:
[(19-2716) Cr. Prac. 1864, sec. 467, p. 269; R.S., R.C., & C.L., sec. 8020; C.S., sec. 9063; I.C.A., sec. 19-2616; am. 1978, ch. 70, sec. 1, p. 140; am. 1982, ch. 257, sec. 1, p. 668; am. 2009, ch. 81, sec. 1, p. 228.]

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