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Senate Bill 0572
    Florida Senate - 1998                                   SB 572

    By Senator Dudley





    25-568-98

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the death sentence; amending

  3         s. 922.10, F.S.; requiring that the Department

  4         of Corrections contract with a private vendor

  5         for the purpose of carrying out executions;

  6         providing for the vendor to designate the

  7         executioner; providing an effective date.

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  9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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11         Section 1.  Section 922.10, Florida Statutes, is

12  amended to read:

13         922.10  Execution of death sentence; executioner.--A

14  death sentence shall be executed by electrocution. The

15  Department of Corrections shall enter into a contract with a

16  private vendor for the purpose of carrying out executions. The

17  private vendor The warden of the state prison shall designate

18  the executioner. Information that which, if released, would

19  identify the executioner is confidential and exempt from the

20  provisions of s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State

21  Constitution. The warrant authorizing the execution shall be

22  read to the convicted person immediately before execution.

23         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

24  law.

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27                          SENATE SUMMARY

28    Provides for a private vendor to execute persons
      sentenced to death in this state pursuant to a contract
29    with the Department of Corrections. Requires that the
      vendor, rather than the warden of the state prison,
30    designate the executioner.

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