Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 40-27-105 (2024)
Commutation of death penalty on application for pardon
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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.
Code 1858, §§ 180, 5258 (deriv. Acts 1841-1842, ch. 55); Shan., §§ 232, 7233; Code 1932, §§ 174, 11839; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 40-3505.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 2000–2000 · leading case: Workman v. State, 22 S.W.3d 807 (Tenn. 2000).
Workman v. State, 22 S.W.3d 807 (Tenn. 2000). “Pursuant to Tenn.Code Ann. § 40-27-105, upon application for a pardon by a person sentenced to death, the Governor may commute the sentence to life imprisonment if he or she "is of [the] opinion that the facts and circumstances adduced are not sufficient to warrant a total…”
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