C.R.S. Section 16-17-101
Governor may commute sentence

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Clemency

Colorado Department of Corrections, October 5, 2023

“Clemency in Colorado has two types: commutation and pardon. A pardon may be granted after a conviction and is a public forgiveness for a crime after completion of the sentence. A commutation modifies a sentence.”
 
Bibliographic info

The governor is hereby fully authorized, when he deems it proper and advisable and consistent with the public interests and the rights and interests of the condemned, to commute the sentence in any case by reducing the penalty in a capital case to imprisonment for life or for a term of not less than twenty years at hard labor.

Source: Section 16-17-101 — Governor may commute sentence, https://leg.­colorado.­gov/sites/default/files/images/olls/crs2023-title-16.­pdf (accessed Oct. 20, 2023).

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Current through Fall 2024

§ 16-17-101’s source at colorado​.gov