Current Status Bill Number:3703 Ratification Number:163 Act Number:108 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:19950301 Primary Sponsor:Hallman All Sponsors:Hallman, Baxley, Quinn, Cobb-Hunter, Kirsh, Jennings, A. Young, Stuart, R. Smith, Lloyd, Herdklotz, Harrison, Littlejohn, Meacham, Sharpe, Simrill, G. Brown, Robinson, Fulmer, Stoddard, Seithel, Fair, Wright, H. Brown, Limehouse, Vaughn, Jaskwhich, Inabinett, Haskins, Wells, Beatty, Tripp, Easterday, Wofford, Walker, Law, Marchbanks, Waldrop, Riser, Stille, D. Smith, Sandifer, Cotty, Cain, Whatley, Gamble, Hutson, Koon, Lanford, Tucker, Davenport, Harwell, Limbaugh, Felder, Cooper, Mason, Chamblee, J. Harris, Wilkes, Boan, Carnell, Fleming, Spearman, Hodges, J. Young, Dantzler, Martin, Klauber, Bailey, Richardson and Witherspoon Drafted Document Number:DKA\3733CM.95 Date Bill Passed both Bodies:19950531 Date of Last Amendment:19950531 Governor's Action:S Date of Governor's Action:19950608 Subject:Lethal injection
Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved
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------ 19950608 Act No. A108
------ 19950608 Signed by Governor
------ 19950606 Ratified R163
House 19950531 Concurred in Senate amendment,
enrolled for ratification
Senate 19950531 Amended, read third time,
returned to House with amendment
Senate 19950525 Read second time
Senate 19950524 Committee report: Favorable 11 SJ
Senate 19950405 Introduced, read first time, 11 SJ
referred to Committee
House 19950404 Read third time, sent to Senate
House 19950330 Amended, read second time
House 19950329 Committee report: Favorable with 25 HJ
amendment
House 19950301 Introduced, read first time, 25 HJ
referred to Committee
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(A108, R163, H3703)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 24-3-530, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO CAPITAL PUNISHMENT BY ELECTROCUTION, SO AS TO REQUIRE CAPITAL PUNISHMENT BY ELECTROCUTION OR LETHAL INJECTION UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
Capital punishment; electrocution or lethal injection
SECTION 1. Section 24-3-530 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Section 420, Act 181 of 1993, is further amended to read:
"Section 24-3-530. (A) A person convicted of a capital crime and having imposed upon him the sentence of death shall suffer the penalty by electrocution or, at the election of the person, lethal injection under the direction of the Director of the Department of Corrections. The election for death by electrocution or lethal injection must be made in writing fourteen days before the execution date or it is waived. If the person waives the right of election, then the penalty must be administered by lethal injection.
(B) A person convicted of a capital crime and sentenced to death by electrocution prior to the effective date of this section must be administered death by electrocution unless the person elects death by lethal injection in writing fourteen days before the execution date.
(C) If execution by lethal injection under this section is held to be unconstitutional by an appellate court of competent jurisdiction, then the manner of inflicting a death sentence must be by electrocution."
Time effective
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor and applies to all executions administered on and after the effective date of this act, irrespective of the date the sentence was imposed.
Approved the 8th day of June, 1995.