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Article 3, § 53 — Creation of criminal penalties not subject to governor's power to commute

Wyoming Const. art. 3, § 53

This text of Wyoming Const. art. 3, § 53 (Creation of criminal penalties not subject to governor's power to commute) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Wyoming primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

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Notwithstanding Article 4, Section 5 of this Constitution, the legislature may by law create a penalty of life imprisonment without parole for specified crimes which sentence shall not be subject to commutation by the governor. The legislature may in addition limit commutation of a death sentence to a sentence of life imprisonment without parole which sentence shall not be subject to further commutation. In no event shall the inherent power of the governor to grant a pardon be limited or curtailed.

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History

This section was amended by a resolution adopted by the 1993 legislature, ratified by a vote of the people at the general election held on November 8, 1994, and proclaimed in effect on November 16, 1994.

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