Court to issue warrant to sheriff; contents
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Carter v. State (2010)
Most recently applied in Carter v. State (September 2010)
As added by P.L.311-1983, SEC.3
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Sec. 2. The court in which a death sentence is ordered shall issue a warrant to the sheriff within fourteen (14) days of the sentence:
(1) that is under the seal of the court;
(2) that contains notice of the conviction and the sentence;
(3) that is directed to the warden of the state prison; and
(4) that orders the warden to execute the convicted person at a specified time and date in the state prison.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.