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2014 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 15 - Criminal Procedure
RS 15:565 - EXECUTION OF SENTENCE
LA Rev Stat § 15:565 What's This?
CHAPTER 4. EXECUTION OF SENTENCE
PART I. IN GENERAL
§565. Duty of sheriff
The sheriff, as soon as any sentence to imprisonment, without hard labor, or to imprisonment without hard labor in default of the payment of fine and costs, shall have become final, shall, unless the governor shall have reprieved the person convicted, proceed forthwith to the execution of said sentence.
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