New York Correction Law Article 22-B - THE DEATH PENALTY

• 650 - Warrant for Execution of Death Sentence.
  1. When a person is sentenced to the punishment of death, the justice or judge who presided at the sentencing proceeding, or if that justice...
• 651 - Time of Execution.
  The week of execution appointed in the warrant shall be not less than thirty days and not more than sixty days after the issuance of...
• 652 - Delivery of Warrant and Confinement.
  1. Within ten days after the issuance of a warrant as provided in section six hundred fifty of this article, the sheriff or the commissioner...
• 653 - Transmittal of Record to the Governor.
  Within a reasonable time following the issuance of the warrant as provided in section six hundred fifty of this article, the clerk of the court...
• 654 - Governor May Consult.
  The governor is authorized to request the opinion of the attorney general, the district attorney, and the convicted person's counsel, or any of them, as...
• 655 - Governor Only to Reprieve.
  No judge, court, or officer, other than the governor, can reprieve the execution of a person sentenced to death. This section does not apply to...
• 656 - Proceeding When Person Under Sentence of Death May Be Incompetent.
  1. The state may not execute an inmate who is incompetent. An inmate is "incompetent" when, as a result of mental disease or defect, he...
• 657 - Proceeding When Person Under Sentence of Death is Pregnant.
  1. A sentence of death may not be carried out upon a woman while she is pregnant. 2. When the superintendent of the correctional facility...
• 658 - Death Penalty Inflicted by Lethal Injection.
  The punishment of death shall be inflicted by lethal injection; that is, by the intravenous injection of a substance or substances in a lethal quantity...
• 659 - Facility.
  The commissioner shall provide and maintain a suitable and efficient facility, enclosed from public view, within the confines of a designated correctional institution for the...
• 660 - Persons Authorized to Be Present At Execution.
  1. The commissioner, any persons designated by the commissioner to act as execution technicians or otherwise to assist in the execution, including correction officers, and...
• 661 - Examination of Convicted Person's Body and Certificate.
  1. Immediately after the execution an examination of the body of the convicted person shall be made by the licensed physicians present at the execution...
• 662 - Disposition of Body.
  1. Prior to the execution, the convicted person shall be given the opportunity to decide in writing to whom his or her body shall be...

Last modified: February 3, 2019