South Dakota § 23A-27A-32 - Place and manner of execution--Qualifications to administer intravenous injection--Substances dispensed to secretary of corrections or designee without prescription.
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§ 23A-27A-32. Place and manner of execution--Qualifications to administer intravenous injection--Substances dispensed to secretary of corrections or designee without prescription.
The punishment of death must be inflicted within the walls of some building at a state correctional facility. The punishment of death must be inflicted by the intravenous injection of a substance or substances in a lethal quantity. The secretary of corrections or a designee of the secretary shall determine the substances and the quantity of substances used for the punishment of death. Only persons trained to administer the injection, selected by the secretary or a designee of the secretary, may perform an execution carried out by intravenous injection. The persons administering the intravenous injection need not be physicians, registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, or other medical professionals licensed or registered under the laws of this or any other state. Any infliction of the punishment of death by intravenous injection of a substance or substances in the manner required by this section may not be construed to be the practice of medicine. Any pharmacist or pharmaceutical supplier is authorized to dispense to the secretary or a designee of the secretary the substance or substances used to inflict the punishment of death without prescription, for carrying out the provisions of this section, notwithstanding any other provision of law.
Source: SL 1939, ch 135, § 11; SDC Supp 1960, § 34.37A11; SDCL § 23-49-20; SL 1979, ch 160, § 34; SL 1984, ch 181; SL 2007, ch 151, § 1; SL 2008, ch 117, § 26; SL 2023, ch 82, § 40.
Source: official South Dakota text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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