HB2539 - Tennessee - Criminal Procedure

Companion Bill SB2661. Criminal Procedure - Clarifies that no execution shall be postponed, delayed, or canceled if lethal injection is found to be unconstitutional; requires execution to be performed by any constitutional means available. - Amends TCA Section 40-23-114. Fiscal Summary for *HB2539 / SB2661Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for *HB2539 / SB2661 Present law provides that if any appellate court finds the carrying out of a death sentence by lethal injection or electrocution to be unconstitutional, then any person sentenced to death would be executed by any constitutional method. The person's death sentence would remain in full force and would not be reduced due to the court's holding. This bill clarifies that if any court declares lethal injection to be unconstitutional, no execution would be [...]

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