2015 Code of Virginia
Title 53.1 - Prisons and Other Methods of Correction
§ 53.1-230. Commutation of capital punishment
In any case in which the Governor shall exercise the power conferred on him to commute capital punishment, he may issue his order to the Director, who shall receive and confine the person whose punishment is commuted according to such order. To carry into effect any commutation of punishment, the Governor may issue his warrant directed to any proper officer, and the same shall be obeyed and executed.
Code 1950, ยง 53-228.1; 1956, c. 344; 1981, c. 497; 1982, c. 636.
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