2014 Nebraska Revised Statutes
Chapter 83 - STATE INSTITUTIONS
83-964 - Sentence of death; how enforced.
83-964. Sentence of death; how enforced.
A sentence of death shall be enforced by the intravenous injection of a substance or substances in a quantity sufficient to cause death. The lethal substance or substances shall be administered in compliance with an execution protocol created and maintained by the Department of Correctional Services.
Source
- Laws 1973, LB 268, § 17;
R.S.1943, (2008), § 29-2532;
Laws 2009, LB36, § 9.
Annotations
Under former law, Nebraska's statutes specifying electrocution as the mode of inflicting the death penalty are separate, and severable, from the procedures by which the trial court sentences the defendant. State v. Mata, 275 Neb. 1, 745 N.W.2d 229 (2008).
Under former law, that a method of execution is cruel and unusual punishment bears solely on the legality of the execution of the sentence and not on the validity of the sentence itself. State v. Mata, 275 Neb. 1, 745 N.W.2d 229 (2008).
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