Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 17. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE · Chapter 10. SENTENCE AND PUNISHMENT · Article 2. DEATH PENALTY GENERALLY

17-10-42. Preparation and filing of certification of execution.

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The executioner and attending physicians shall certify the fact of the execution to the clerk of the superior court of the county in which the sentence was imposed, which certificate shall be filed by the clerk with the papers in the case.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

Ga. L. 1924, p. 195, § 5; Code 1933, § 27-2516.

Maintenance of death records generally, § 31-10-17 et seq.

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