RCW 10.95.170
Imprisonment of defendant.
The defendant shall be imprisoned in the state penitentiary within ten days after the trial court enters a judgment and sentence imposing the death penalty and shall be imprisoned both prior to and subsequent to the issuance of the death warrant as provided in RCW 10.95.160. During such period of imprisonment, the defendant shall be confined in the segregation unit, where the defendant may be confined with other prisoners not under sentence of death, but prisoners under sentence of death shall be assigned to single-person cells.
[ 1983 c 255 § 1; 1981 c 138 § 17.]
NOTES:
Convicted female persons, commitment and procedure as to death sentences: RCW 72.02.250.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 10.95 - Capital Punishment—Aggravated First Degree Murder.
10.95.030 - Sentences for aggravated first degree murder.
10.95.040 - Special sentencing proceeding—Notice—Filing—Service.
10.95.080 - When sentence to death or sentence to life imprisonment shall be imposed.
10.95.150 - Time limit for appellate review of death sentence and filing opinion.
10.95.160 - Death warrant—Issuance—Form—Time for execution of judgment and sentence.
10.95.170 - Imprisonment of defendant.
10.95.180 - Death penalty—How executed.
10.95.190 - Death warrant—Record—Return to trial court.
10.95.200 - Proceedings for failure to execute on day named.
10.95.901 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.