FAIR DEATH ACT

WRITTEN BY PRESIDENT KEVIN O’LEARY (LC-CA)
----99th Congress of the United States
IN BRIEF
To create common sense regulation to ensure the death penalty is carried out safely and humanely when legal. 
== Section 1. Name of Bill ==
This Bill will be known as the Fair Death Act for the duration of this bill, in all debates, and following enactment by the executive branch will carry the same title.
== Section 2. Findings and Definitions ==
FINDINGS
# Whereas, the death penalty should be carried out safely and humanely if legal 
DEFINITIONS
# Public executions - The carrying out of the death penalty witnessed by ten or more people, excluding medical professionals and government employees.
# Lethal Injection - Lethal injection is the practice of injecting one or more drugs into a person (typically a barbiturate, paralytic, and potassium solution) for the express purpose of causing rapid death.
== Section 3. Common sense regulations ==
# The entirety of Section 3 shall not be encoded into federal law, rather states that do not comply with the following regulations shall have their annual highway funding from the federal government reduced by 10%
# Public executions shall be illegal.
# The following methods of the death penalty are hereby illegal
## The guillotine
## Firing squad
## Hanging by the neck
### Execution by hanging by the neck shall become illegal January, 1990 rather than on the enactment of this legislation.
## The electric chair
### Execution by the electric chair shall become illegal January, 1995 rather than on the enactment of this legislation
== Section 4. Oversight and research ==
# The Death Penalty Administration (DPA) shall be created under the United States Department of Health and Human Services
## The DPA shall be funded $20,000,000 annually
# The DPA shall oversee states that utilize the death penalty and ensure that the death penalty is administered as quickly and as painless as possible to the prisoner
# The DPA shall engage in research on the execution method of legal injection and provide regular reports on how to undertake the process safely and humanely
# It shall be recommended that states that utilize the death penalty transition to lethal injection as their sole death penalty method by 1994
== Section 5. Funding ==
TOTAL BILL IMPLEMENTATION COST - $20,000,000 (annually)
* Section 4 - $20,000,000 (annually)
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