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C.R.S. § 16-11-901 — Death penalty repeal - applicability - current sentences.
Current through 2025 Regular Session
Part of Part 9: REPEAL OF THE DEATH PENALTY, Colorado Revised Statutes.
Full text of C.R.S. § 16-11-901
Statutory text current through the 2025 Regular Session. This is an officially sanctioned publication using the official text of the Colorado Revised Statutes; it is not the official statutes of the State of Colorado.
For offenses charged on or after July 1, 2020, the death penalty is not a sentencing option for a defendant convicted of a class 1 felony in the state of Colorado. Nothing in this section commutes or alters the sentence of a defendant convicted of an offense charged prior to July 1, 2020. This section does not apply to a person currently serving a death sentence. Any death sentence in effect on July 1, 2020, is valid.
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