Article 81When and how the death penalty is to be executed

When and how the death penalty is to be executed.

-The death sentence shall be executed with preference to any other and shall consist in putting the person under sentence to death by electrocution. The death sentence shall be executed under the authority of the Director of Prisons, endeavoring so far as possible to mitigate the sufferings of the person under sentence during electrocution as well as during the proceedings prior to the execution.

If the person under sentence so desire, he shall be anaesthetized at the moment of the electrocution.