2005 Washington Revised Code RCW 10.95.170: Imprisonment of defendant.

    The defendant shall be imprisoned in the state penitentiary within ten days after the trial court enters a judgment and sentence imposing the death penalty and shall be imprisoned both prior to and subsequent to the issuance of the death warrant as provided in RCW 10.95.160. During such period of imprisonment, the defendant shall be confined in the segregation unit, where the defendant may be confined with other prisoners not under sentence of death, but prisoners under sentence of death shall be assigned to single-person cells.

    [1983 c 255 § 1; 1981 c 138 § 17.]

Notes:
         Severability -- 1983 c 255: See RCW 72.74.900.

    Convicted female persons, commitment and procedure as to death sentences: RCW 72.02.250.

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