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Title 40 - Criminal Procedure
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Chapter 23 - Execution of Judgment
Chapter 23 - Execution of Judgment
§ 40-23-101. Commencement of sentence -- Credit for pretrial detention and jail time pending appeal.
§ 40-23-102. Defendant in custody at time of judgment.
§ 40-23-103. Sheriff to commit defendant.
§ 40-23-104. Sentence to workhouse for felony term -- Removal by trial judge.
§ 40-23-105. Felons sentenced to jail compelled to hard labor.
§ 40-23-106. Notice to commissioner of convicts for penitentiary.
§ 40-23-107. Safekeeping of inmates -- Transfers to penitentiary.
§ 40-23-108. Order specifying number of guards for removal of prisoners.
§ 40-23-109. Warrant to summon aid in removal of prisoners.
§ 40-23-110. Summons of additional guards.
§ 40-23-111. Qualifications of guard.
§ 40-23-112. Juror disqualified to act as guard.
§ 40-23-113. Report by sheriff to department of correction.
§ 40-23-114. Death by lethal injection -- Election of electrocution -- Electrocution as alternative method.
§ 40-23-115. Maintenance of death chamber.
§ 40-23-116. Manner of executing sentence of death -- Witnesses.
§ 40-23-117. Death sentence stands if not carried out at scheduled time.
§ 40-23-118. Warrant for apprehension of condemned inmate.
§ 40-23-119. Order of execution after arrest of condemned prisoner.