Colorado statute
C.R.S. § 16-17-101 — Governor may commute sentence.
Current through 2025 Regular Session
Part of Article 17: Commutation of Sentence, Colorado Revised Statutes.
Full text of C.R.S. § 16-17-101
Statutory text current through the 2025 Regular Session. This is an officially sanctioned publication using the official text of the Colorado Revised Statutes; it is not the official statutes of the State of Colorado.
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.
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