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2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 16 - Criminal Proceedings
Sentencing and Imprisonment
Article 17 - Commutation of Sentence
§ 16-17-101. Governor may commute sentence

Universal Citation:
CO Rev Stat § 16-17-101 (2016)
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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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