Upon application for a pardon by a person sentenced to capital punishment, if the governor is of opinion that the facts and circumstances adduced are not sufficient to warrant a total pardon, the governor may commute the punishment of death to imprisonment for life in the penitentiary.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 40-27-105
Commutation of death penalty on application for pardon
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Workman v. State (2000)
Most recently applied in Workman v. State (January 2000)
Code 1858, §§ 180, 5258 (deriv
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