Code of Virginia - Title 53.1 Prisons And Other Methods Of Correction - Chapter 13 Death Sentences

• 53.1-232 Procedures for execution of death sentence; subsequent process
  A. Sentence of death shall not be executed sooner than thirty days after the sentence is pronounced. The court shall, in imposing such sentence, fix ...
• 53.1-232.1 When execution dates required
  In a criminal case where a sentence of death has been imposed, the trial court shall set an execution date when it is notified in ...
• 53.1-233 Death chamber; who to execute death sentence
  The Director is hereby authorized and directed to provide and maintain a permanent death chamber and necessary appurtenant facilities within the confines of a state ...
• 53.1-234 Transfer of prisoner; how death sentence executed; who to be present
  The clerk of the circuit court in which is pronounced the sentence of death against any person shall, after such judgment becomes final in the ...
• 53.1-235 Certificate of execution of death sentence
  After execution of the death sentence as provided in this chapter, the physician in attendance shall perform an examination to determine that death has occurred. ...
• 53.1-236 Disposition of remains
  Upon application of the relatives of the person executed, the remains after execution shall be returned to their address and at their cost. If no ...

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