Chapter 27A - Capital Punishment
- Section 23A-27A-1 - Mitigating and aggravating circumstances considered by judge or jury.
- Section 23A-27A-2 - Presentence hearing required--Relevant evidence.
- Section 23A-27A-3 - Jury to determine existence of mitigating or aggravating circumstances--Instructions to jury.
- Section 23A-27A-4 - Aggravating circumstance and recommendation of death penalty required for ClassA felony death sentencing--Life imprisonment--Bench trial or guilty plea.
- Section 23A-27A-5 - Written designation of aggravating circumstances required.
- Section 23A-27A-6 - Designation by judge in nonjury cases--At least one aggravating circumstancerequired for death penalty imposition.
- Section 23A-27A-7 - Sentence of death--Copies of judgment provided to officials.
- Section 23A-27A-8 - Accumulation of prior capital felony records by Supreme Court--Staff andmethods.
- Section 23A-27A-9 - Review by Supreme Court required when death penalty imposed--Procedure.
- Section 23A-27A-10 - Sentence review consolidated with direct appeal--Decision.
- Section 23A-27A-11 - Procedure on appeal from capital punishment case--Briefs--Oral argument.
- Section 23A-27A-12 - Factors reviewed by Supreme Court regarding sentence.
- Section 23A-27A-13 - Reference to similar cases to be included in decision--Death sentence affirmed orset aside--Similar-case records provided to resentencing judge.
- Section 23A-27A-14 - Life imprisonment when death penalty held unconstitutional.
- Section 23A-27A-15 - Warrant of death sentence and execution--Time of execution.
- Section 23A-27A-16 - Delivery of defendant with warrant to penitentiary.
- Section 23A-27A-17 - Date and time of execution--Warden to make public announcement.
- Section 23A-27A-18 - Repealed.
- Section 23A-27A-19 - Investigation by Governor.
- Section 23A-27A-20 - Reprieve or suspension of sentence by Governor during investigation.
- Section 23A-27A-21 - Power to reprieve or suspend sentence limited to Governor--Exception.
- Section 23A-27A-22 - Mental incompetence of defendant--Notice to Governor, secretary of corrections,and sentencing court.
- Section 23A-27A-22.1 - Hearings and examinations regarding mental competence of defendant--Change incircumstances.
- Section 23A-27A-22.2 - Psychiatric examination.
- Section 23A-27A-22.3 - Psychiatric report.
- Section 23A-27A-22.4 - Video tape record of psychiatric examination.
- Section 23A-27A-22.5 - Counsel for defendant--Rights afforded at hearing.
- Section 23A-27A-23 - Repealed.
- Section 23A-27A-24 - Defendant incompetent to be executed--Suspension of sentence--Confinement--Periodic review.
- Section 23A-27A-25 - Repealed.
- Section 23A-27A-26 - Defendant mentally competent to be executed--Warrant of death sentence andexecution--Time of execution.
- Section 23A-27A-26.1 - Death penalty not to be imposed on person mentally retarded when crimecommitted.
- Section 23A-27A-26.2 - Mental retardation defined.
- Section 23A-27A-26.3 - Procedures for establishing mental retardation of defendant.
- Section 23A-27A-26.4 - Appeal by state.
- Sections 23A-27A-26.5, 23A-27A-26.6 - Examination of defendant by state--Videotaped recording--Defendant's statements inadmissible except as to mental retardation. Applicability of §§ 23
- Section 23A-27A-26.7 - Inseparability of §§ 23A-27A-26.1 to 23A-27A-26.7, inclusive.
- Section 23A-27A-27 - Pregnancy of defendant--Examination--Report.
- Section 23A-27A-28 - Suspension of sentence if defendant pregnant.
- Section 23A-27A-29 - Defendant no longer pregnant--Execution warrant issued.
- Section 23A-27A-30 - Repealed.
- Section 23A-27A-31 - Warrant appointing new time for execution issued by sentencing court if defendantnot executed within original time period.
- Section 23A-27A-31.1 - Segregation of defendant from other inmates--Access to defendant by otherslimited.
- Section 23A-27A-31.2 - Confidentiality of identity of person administering intravenous injection--Violationas misdemeanor.
- Section 23A-27A-32 - Place and manner of execution--Qualifications to administer intravenous injection--Substances dispensed to warden without prescription.
- Section 23A-27A-32.1 - Execution of persons convicted before July 1, 2007--Choice of manner ofexecution.
- Section 23A-27A-33 - Place for persons and equipment provided at penitentiary.
- Section 23A-27A-34 - Attendance at execution by attorney general, sentencing judge, state's attorney,sheriff, representatives of victim, news media, and additional citizens approved bywarden.
- Section 23A-27A-34.1 - Attendance at execution by person trained to pronounce death, corrections staff,and law enforcement officers.
- Section 23A-27A-34.2 - Witnesses permitted to defendant at execution.
- Section 23A-27A-35 - Repealed.
- Section 23A-27A-36 - Other persons not permitted to attend.
- Section 23A-27A-37 - Secrecy of execution time--Disclosure as misdemeanor.
- Section 23A-27A-37.1 - Disability of warden--Appointment of deputy or other officer.
- Section 23A-27A-37.2 - Postmortem examination by county coroner.
- Section 23A-27A-37.3 - Autopsy.
- Section 23A-27A-38 - Repealed.
- Section 23A-27A-39 - Interment of body unless claimed by relative.
- Section 23A-27A-40 - Repealed.
- Section 23A-27A-40.1 - Certificate of execution.
- Section 23A-27A-41 - Repealed.
- Section 23A-27A-42 - Death penalty prohibited for defendant younger than eighteen when offensecommitted.
- Section 23A-27A-43 - Immunity of persons participating and cooperating in execution.