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Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 43.20 — Present at execution

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. 43.20

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.

Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 43.20Primary source, current through the 89th Legislature, 2nd Called Session (2025)

The following persons may be present at the execution: the executioner, and such persons as may be necessary to assist him in conducting the execution; the Board of Directors of the Department of Corrections, two physicians, including the prison physician, the spiritual advisor of the condemned, the chaplains of the Department of Corrections, the county judge and sheriff of the county in which the Department of Corrections is situated, and any of the relatives or friends of the condemned person that he may request, not exceeding five in number, shall be admitted. No convict shall be permitted by the prison authorities to witness the execution.

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