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Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 43.14 — Execution of convict: confidential information
Current through 89th Legislature, 2nd Called Session (2025)
Part of Chapter 43: EXECUTION OF JUDGMENT, Texas Code of Criminal Procedure.
Full text of Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 43.14
Statutory text current through the 89th Legislature, 2nd Called Session (2025). This publication reproduces the official statutory text; it is not the official statutes of the State of Texas.
(a) Whenever the sentence of death is pronounced against a convict, the sentence shall be executed at any time after the hour of 6 p.m. on the day set for the execution, by intravenous injection of a substance or substances in a lethal quantity sufficient to cause death and until such convict is dead, such execution procedure to be determined and supervised by the director of the correctional institutions division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. (b) The name, address, and other identifying information of the following is confidential and excepted from disclosure under Section 552.021 , Government Code: (1) any person who participates in an execution procedure described by Subsection (a), including a person who uses, supplies, or administers a substance during the execution; and (2) any person or entity that manufactures, transports, tests, procures, compounds, prescribes, dispenses, or provides a substance or supplies used in an execution.
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