Senate Amendment 5
S 120 - Session 125 (2023-2024)
Executions

Senator Matthews proposes the following amendment (SMIN-120.AA0022S):

Amend the bill, as and if amended, SECTION 1, by striking Section 24-3-580(B) and inserting:

(B) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any identifying information of a person or entity that participates in the planning or administration of the execution of a death sentence shall be confidential. A court, upon a showing of good cause, may order discovery relating to the identifying information of a member of the execution team if that member is a person or entity that compounds, tests, manufactures, imports, transports, distributes, supplies, or prepares the drugs, medical supplies, or medical equipment utilized in the execution of a death sentence. For all other members of the execution team, identifying information shall not be subject to discovery, subpoena, or any other means of legal compulsion or process for disclosure to any person or entity in any administrative, civil, or criminal proceeding in the courts, administrative agencies, boards, commissions, legislative bodies, or quasilegislative bodies of this State, or in any similar body that exercises any part of the sovereignty of the State.

(2) Notwithstanding (B)(1), identifying information of a person or entity that compounds, tests, manufactures, imports, transports, distributes, supplies, or prepares the drugs, medical supplies, or medical equipment utilized in the execution of a death sentence shall be provided to an attorney representing the defendant who has been sentenced to execution.