Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 10 Criminal Procedure - Section 10.95.090 Sentence if death sentence commuted, held invalid, or if death sentence established by chapter held invalid

§ 10.95.090. Sentence if death sentence commuted, held invalid, or if death sentence established by chapter held invalid

If any sentence of death imposed pursuant to this chapter is commuted by the governor, or held to be invalid by a final judgment of a court after all avenues of appeal have been exhausted by the parties to the action, or if the death penalty established by this chapter is held to be invalid by a final judgment of a court which is binding on all courts in the state, the sentence for aggravated first degree murder if there was an affirmative response to the question posed by RCW 10.95.060(4) shall be life imprisonment as provided in RCW 10.95.030(1).

[1981 c 138 § 9.]

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