Bill Text: IL HB1733 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning to the execution of a death sentence.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB1733 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HB1733-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 is | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | amended by changing Section 119-5 as follows:
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| 6 | (725 ILCS 5/119-5) (from Ch. 38, par. 119-5)
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| 7 | Sec. 119-5. Execution of Death Sentence.
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| 8 | (a)(1) A defendant sentenced to death shall be executed by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | an
intravenous administration of a lethal quantity of an | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | ultrashort-acting
barbiturate in combination with a | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | chemical paralytic agent and
and potassium
chloride or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | other equally effective substances sufficient to cause | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | death
until death is pronounced by a coroner who is not a | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | licensed physician.
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| 15 | (2) If the execution of the sentence of death as | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | provided in paragraph
(1) is held illegal or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | unconstitutional by a reviewing court of competent
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| 18 | jurisdiction, the sentence of death shall be carried out by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | electrocution.
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| 20 | (b) In pronouncing the sentence of death the court shall | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | set the date of
the execution which shall be not less than 60 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | nor more than 90 days from
the date sentence is pronounced.
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| 23 | (c) A sentence of death shall be executed at a Department | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | of
Corrections facility.
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| 2 | (d) The warden of the penitentiary shall supervise such | ||||||
| 3 | execution,
which shall be conducted in the presence of 6 | ||||||
| 4 | witnesses who shall certify the
execution of the sentence. The | ||||||
| 5 | certification shall be filed with the clerk of
the court that | ||||||
| 6 | imposed the sentence.
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| 7 | (d-5) The Department of Corrections shall not request, | ||||||
| 8 | require, or allow a
health care practitioner licensed in | ||||||
| 9 | Illinois,
including but not limited to physicians and nurses, | ||||||
| 10 | regardless of employment,
to participate in an execution.
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| 11 | (e) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection (e), | ||||||
| 12 | the identity of
executioners and other persons who participate | ||||||
| 13 | or
perform ancillary functions in an execution and information | ||||||
| 14 | contained in
records that would identify those persons shall | ||||||
| 15 | remain confidential,
shall not be subject to disclosure, and | ||||||
| 16 | shall not be admissible as evidence
or be discoverable in any | ||||||
| 17 | action of any kind in any court or before any
tribunal, board, | ||||||
| 18 | agency, or person. In order to protect the confidentiality
of | ||||||
| 19 | persons participating in an execution, the Director of | ||||||
| 20 | Corrections may
direct that the Department make payments in | ||||||
| 21 | cash for such services.
In confidential investigations by the | ||||||
| 22 | Department of Professional Regulation,
the Department of | ||||||
| 23 | Corrections shall disclose the
names and license numbers of | ||||||
| 24 | health care practitioners participating or
performing | ||||||
| 25 | ancillary functions in an execution to the
Department of | ||||||
| 26 | Professional Regulation and the Department of Professional
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| 1 | Regulation shall forward those names and license
numbers to the | ||||||
| 2 | appropriate disciplinary boards.
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| 3 | (f) The amendatory changes to this Section made by this | ||||||
| 4 | amendatory Act
of 1991 are severable under Section 1.31 of the | ||||||
| 5 | Statute on Statutes.
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| 6 | (g) (Blank).
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| 7 | (h) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any
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| 8 | pharmaceutical supplier is authorized to dispense
drugs to the | ||||||
| 9 | Director of Corrections or his or her designee, without
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| 10 | prescription, in order to carry out the provisions of this | ||||||
| 11 | Section.
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| 12 | (i) The amendatory changes to this Section made by this | ||||||
| 13 | amendatory Act of
the 93rd General Assembly are severable
under | ||||||
| 14 | Section 1.31 of the Statute on Statutes.
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| 15 | (Source: P.A. 93-379, eff. 7-24-03.)
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