2019 Massachusetts General Laws
Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases
Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases
Chapter 279 - Judgment and Execution
Section 64 - Judicial Stay of Execution of Death Sentence; Final Determination of Judicial Questions

Universal Citation: MA Gen L ch 279 § 64 (2019)

Section 64. The execution of a sentence of death may be stayed from time to time for stated periods by the supreme judicial court, or a justice thereof, pending the final determination of any judicial question arising in or out of the case in which the sentence is imposed.

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