13-4025. Procedure upon discovery that
prisoner under death sentence may be pregnant; examination
If, after delivery to the superintendent of the state prison of a female prisoner
under a sentence of death, there is reason at any time prior to execution of such
sentence to believe that she is pregnant, the superintendent shall give notice of such
fact to the county attorney of the county in which the prison is located, who shall
immediately file in the superior court of such county a petition, setting forth the
conviction and sentence and the fact that the prisoner is believed to be pregnant, and
requesting that the question of pregnancy be determined. The court shall immediately
summon three disinterested physicians to inquire into the alleged pregnancy and to report
thereon. If the court, after hearing the report of the physicians, decides that the
defendant is pregnant, it shall make a written finding thereof and enter it upon the
minutes.
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