46-18-220. Sentences for certain offenses committed in official detention -- death penalty. An offender convicted of having committed attempted deliberate homicide, aggravated assault, or aggravated kidnapping while in official detention, as defined in 45-2-101, shall, if the provisions of 46-1-401 have been complied with, be sentenced to death or life imprisonment as provided in 46-18-301 through 46-18-310.

     History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 696, L. 1985; amd. Sec. 7, Ch. 52, L. 1999; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 126, L. 1999; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 491, L. 1999; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 524, L. 2001.