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2021 Colorado Code
Title 18 - Criminal Code
Article 1.3 - Sentencing in Criminal Cases
Part 14 - Competency of Persons to Be Executed
§ 18-1.3-1401. Definitions
Universal Citation: CO Code § 18-1.3-1401 (2021)
As used in this part 14, unless the context otherwise requires:
- “Colorado mental health institute” means the Colorado mental health institute at Pueblo.
- “Mentally incompetent to be executed” means that, due to a mental disease or defect, a person who has been sentenced to death is presently unaware that he or she is to be punished for the crime of murder or that the impending punishment for that crime is death.
History. Source: L. 2002: Entire article added with relocations, p. 1459, § 2, effective October 1.
Editor's note:
This section is similar to former § 16-8-301 as it existed prior to 2002.
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