Colo. Rev. Stat. § 16-17-101

Current through Chapter 519 of the 2024 Legislative Session and Chapter 2 of the 2024 First Extraordinary Session

Section 16-17-101 - Governor may commute sentence

The governor is hereby fully authorized, when he deems it proper and advisable and consistent with the public interests and the rights and interests of the condemned, to commute the sentence in any case by reducing the penalty in a capital case to imprisonment for life or for a term of not less than twenty years at hard labor.

C.R.S. § 16-17-101

L. 1872: p. 123, § 1. G.L. § 875. G.S. § 999. R.S. 08: § 2043. C.L. § 809. CSA: C. 131, § 117. CRS 53: § 105-6-1. C.R.S. 1963: § 105-6-1. L. 77: Entire section amended, p. 891, § 1, effective July 1.