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2013 Maryland Code
CORRECTIONAL SERVICES
§ 3-905 - Method of execution


MD Correc Svs Code § 3-905 (2013) What's This?

§3-905.

(a) The manner of inflicting the punishment of death shall be the continuous intravenous administration of a lethal quantity of an ultrashort-acting barbiturate or other similar drug in combination with a chemical paralytic agent until a licensed physician pronounces death according to accepted standards of medical practice.

(b) (1) The administration of the lethal substances required by this section is not the practice of medicine.

(2) Notwithstanding any other law, a pharmacist or pharmaceutical supplier may dispense drugs, without a prescription, to the Commissioner or the Commissioner’s designee to carry out this section.

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