General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 279 Judgment and Execution
- Massachusetts General Laws - Suspension of execution; payment of fine; probation; revocation of suspension; exceptions - Chapter 279, Section 1
When a person convicted before a court is sentenced to imprisonment, the court may direct that the execution of the sentence, or any part thereof,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Suspension of execution of sentence; probation; child support payments - Chapter 279, Section 1A
When a person convicted before a court is sentenced to fine and imprisonment, the court may direct that the execution of the sentence, or any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Funds collection and disbursement; single point for clerk-magistrate and probation offices - Chapter 279, Section 1B
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the administrative justice of a department of the trial court may direct that both the clerk-magistrate’s office and the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Suspension of execution of orders of commitment to Massachusetts reformatory, etc. - Chapter 279, Section 2
In all cases the execution of orders of commitment to any training school or reformatory, however named, the department of youth services, or the department...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Arrest without warrant of person on probation; notice of surrender; surrender hearing; warrant for arrest of persons already imprisoned; application for disposition; temporary custody - Chapter 279, Section 3
At any time before final disposition of the case of a person placed under probation supervision or in the custody or care of a probation...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Motion of district attorney for sentence - Chapter 279, Section 3A
Not later than seven days after a plea of guilty or after a verdict of guilty and in any event before adjournment of the sitting...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Imposition of sentence; stay of execution - Chapter 279, Section 4
Sentence shall be imposed upon conviction of a crime, regardless of whether an appeal has been taken, except as otherwise provided in section sixty-one in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 50 - Chapter 279, Section 4A
Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice to victim of sentencing proceedings; oral or written statements - Chapter 279, Section 4B
Before disposition in any case where a defendant has been found guilty of any felony or any crime against the person or crime where physical...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sentence if no punishment is provided by statute - Chapter 279, Section 5
If no punishment for a crime is provided by statute, the court shall impose such sentence, according to the nature of the crime, as conforms...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sentence to jail or house of correction - Chapter 279, Section 6
Whoever is convicted of a crime punishable wholly or in part by imprisonment in jail may be sentenced to such imprisonment in the house of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Special sentence of imprisonment; eligible offenders; revocation or rescission of special sentence; subsequent crimes - Chapter 279, Section 6A
When a person is sentenced on a first offense to imprisonment in a jail or house of correction for a term which does not exceed...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sentence to jail or house of correction for non-payment of fine - Chapter 279, Section 7
Whoever is convicted of a crime punishable by a fine, and is liable to imprisonment in the jail for its non-payment, may be sentenced to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Commitments upon two or more sentences - Chapter 279, Section 8
A convict upon whom two or more sentences to imprisonment are imposed may be fully committed upon all such sentences at the same time, and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Determination of time of taking effect of sentence; “from and after” sentence - Chapter 279, Section 8A
For the purpose only of determining the time of the taking effect of a sentence which is ordered to take effect from and after the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Commission of crime while released on personal recognizance; consecutive sentence - Chapter 279, Section 8B
If a defendant on release subject to the provisions of section fifty-eight of chapter two hundred and seventy-six, commits a crime, the sentence imposed for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Second sentence for non-payment of fine - Chapter 279, Section 9
Except as provided in section one hundred and forty-six of chapter one hundred and twenty-seven, if a convict is sentenced to pay a fine in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Conditional sentence - Chapter 279, Section 10
If a person has been convicted of a crime punishable, at the discretion of the court, by fine or imprisonment in the jail or house...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Punishment by imprisonment only or by fine only when law prescribes both - Chapter 279, Section 11
Whoever is convicted of a crime, punishable by fine and imprisonment either in the jail or house of correction, except a person convicted under section...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Recognizance of husband convicted of assault upon wife - Chapter 279, Section 12
Except as provided in section twenty-eight of chapter two hundred and eighteen and in section twenty of chapter two hundred and nineteen, if a husband...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Recognizance to keep the peace or to be of good behavior - Chapter 279, Section 13
Except as provided in section twenty-eight of chapter two hundred and eighteen and in section twenty of chapter two hundred and nineteen, whoever is convicted...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Recognizance; filing; proceedings on breach of condition - Chapter 279, Section 14
Such recognizance shall be filed of record in the superior court for the county, and, upon a breach of the condition thereof, the proceedings shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sentence to jail or house of correction in any county - Chapter 279, Section 15
Whoever is convicted of a crime, punishable by imprisonment in the jail or house of correction, may be sentenced to a jail or house of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sentencing of female to Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham - Chapter 279, Section 16
A female, convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment in a jail or house of correction, may be sentenced to the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1993, 432, Sec. 14 - Chapter 279, Section 17
Repealed, 1993, 432, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1993, 432, Sec. 15 - Chapter 279, Section 18
Repealed, 1993, 432, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Place of imprisonment of females convicted of felony - Chapter 279, Section 19
The sentence to imprisonment of a female convicted of a felony shall be executed in the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham; or the court imposing sentence...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Execution of sentence of imprisonment of females sentenced to confinement at hard labor - Chapter 279, Section 20
Subject to the preceding section, a sentence of a female convict of whatever age to confinement at hard labor shall be executed in a jail...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1931, 426, Sec. 49 - Chapter 279, Section 21
Repealed, 1931, 426, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1955, 770, Sec. 122 - Chapter 279, Section 22
Repealed, 1955, 770, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Limitation of sentences of males to jails or houses of correction - Chapter 279, Section 23
No sentence of a male convict to imprisonment or confinement for more than two and one half years shall be executed in any jail or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Indeterminate sentence to state prison - Chapter 279, Section 24
If a convict is sentenced to the state prison, except as an habitual criminal, the court shall not fix the term of imprisonment, but shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Punishment of habitual criminals - Chapter 279, Section 25
(a) Whoever is convicted of a felony and has been previously twice convicted and sentenced to state prison or state correctional facility or a federal...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Further sentence of convict in state prison - Chapter 279, Section 26
A convict under sentence of imprisonment in the state prison may be further sentenced for a maximum term not longer than the longest term fixed...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Immediate execution of sentence to state prison of convict sentenced to jail or house of correction - Chapter 279, Section 27
If a convict serving a sentence of imprisonment in a jail or house of correction is convicted of a felony, the court may impose sentence...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1993, 432, Sec. 17 - Chapter 279, Section 28
Repealed, 1993, 432, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1955, 770, Sec. 122 - Chapter 279, Section 29
Repealed, 1955, 770, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Vacation of office from time of sentence to state prison - Chapter 279, Section 30
If a convict sentenced by a court of the commonwealth or of the United States to imprisonment in the state prison or by a court...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1993, 432, Sec. 18 - Chapter 279, Section 31
Repealed, 1993, 432, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1993, 432, Sec. 19 - Chapter 279, Section 32
Repealed, 1993, 432, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1993, 432, Sec. 20 - Chapter 279, Section 33
Repealed, 1993, 432, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Credit for days of confinement awaiting and during trial - Chapter 279, Section 33A
The court on imposing a sentence of commitment to a correctional institution of the commonwealth, a house of correction, or a jail, shall order that...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Delivery to sheriff of certified transcript from minutes of court of conviction and sentence; execution of sentence - Chapter 279, Section 34
When a convict is sentenced to pay a fine or to be imprisoned, the clerk of the court shall forthwith make out and deliver to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Transmission of complaint or indictment to correctional institution - Chapter 279, Section 35
When a person is committed to any correctional institution of the commonwealth or to any other public penal institution, on conviction of felony, the clerk...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sentences to state farm - Chapter 279, Section 36
Except for commitments under sections thirty-five or forty-eight of chapter one hundred and twenty-three, no person shall be sentenced to the state farm except for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Setting out statutory name of crime in warrant for commitment - Chapter 279, Section 37
Every warrant for the commitment of a person sentenced by a district court shall set forth the statutory name, if any, of the crime of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Powers of sheriff or constable in execution of warrant of commitment - Chapter 279, Section 38
A sheriff, deputy sheriff or constable, when engaged in the execution of a warrant for the commitment of a person to a penal institution which...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Return of precept to magistrate - Chapter 279, Section 39
The officer serving the precept in a criminal case shall, without charging travel therefor, return it with his doings and fees endorsed thereon to the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Service of new warrant of commitment upon convict - Chapter 279, Section 40
If a convict imprisoned under sentence is again sentenced to confinement in a prison other than that in which he is then held, the warrant...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Default of corporation - Chapter 279, Section 41
If a corporation, after being duly served with process, fails to appear and answer to an indictment or complaint brought against it under the laws...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Warrant of distress to compel payment of penalty or assessment - Chapter 279, Section 42
If judgment is rendered against a corporation upon an indictment or complaint under the laws of the commonwealth, the court may issue a warrant of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1982, 554, Sec. 5 - Chapter 279, Section 43 to 56
Repealed, 1982, 554, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Death sentence; pronouncement or revocation of stay; warrant of conviction; execution of sentence; certified copy of record to governor - Chapter 279, Section 57
Immediately upon the pronouncing of the sentence of death upon a person convicted of a capital crime, and immediately upon the revocation under section four...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Death sentence confinement; psychiatric examination; transfer or failure to transfer to general prison population; appeal; hearing; annual record review; court order - Chapter 279, Section 58
The sheriff of the county in a jail whereof a prisoner sentenced to the punishment of death is confined, or a deputy designated by the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Execution of death sentence; time constraints - Chapter 279, Section 59
The sentence of death shall be executed by the superintendent of the state prison, or by a person acting under his direction, not earlier than...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Means of execution of death sentence - Chapter 279, Section 60
The punishment of death shall be inflicted by causing a current of electricity of sufficient intensity to cause death to pass through the body of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Capital crime conviction; imposition of sentence; insane and pregnant persons - Chapter 279, Section 61
If a person convicted of a capital crime is, at the time when sentence is to be imposed, found by the court to be insane,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Delay in execution of death sentence; insanity or pregnancy of prisoner; psychiatric examination and written certification - Chapter 279, Section 62
After examination by two psychiatrists designated by the commissioner of mental health, if it appears that a prisoner under sentence of death has become insane,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Delay in execution of death sentence; consideration of pardon - Chapter 279, Section 63
The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, may from time to time respite the execution of a sentence of death for stated...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Judicial stay of execution of death sentence; final determination of judicial questions - Chapter 279, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Witnesses; execution of death sentence - Chapter 279, Section 65
There shall be present at the execution of the sentence of death, in addition to the superintendent, deputy and such officers of the state prison...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Execution of death sentence; post mortem examination - Chapter 279, Section 66
There shall be a post mortem examination by a medical examiner for Norfolk county of the body of every prisoner executed in conformity with the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Warrant for execution of death sentence; return to clerk of court after execution - Chapter 279, Section 67
When the superintendent has executed the sentence of death upon a prisoner in obedience to a warrant from the court, he shall forthwith make return...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Special jury questions for first degree murder; presentence hearing upon conviction for consideration of death penalty; consideration by jury of aggravating and mitigating circumstances; determination by jury; sentence by court; validity of conviction - Chapter 279, Section 68
In all cases in which a sentence of death may be imposed, the court shall submit to the jury special questions concerning the issue of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Aggravating and mitigating circumstances in death penalty cases - Chapter 279, Section 69
(a) In all cases in which the death penalty may be authorized, the statutory aggravating circumstances are: (1) the murder was committed on a victim...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Death penalty imposed; jury findings necessary - Chapter 279, Section 70
Where, upon a trial by jury, a person is convicted of a crime which is punishable by death, a sentence of death shall not be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Review of death sentence; remand; reversal; affirmation - Chapter 279, Section 71
In addition to review of the entire case pursuant to section thirty-three E of chapter two hundred and seventy-eight, the supreme judicial court shall review...
Last modified: September 11, 2015