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Title XLVII
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND CORRECTIONS
Chapter 922
Execution
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Section 922.14, Florida Statutes 2000

922.14  Sentence of death unexecuted for unjustifiable reasons.--If a death sentence is not executed because of unjustified failure of the Governor to issue a warrant, or for any other unjustifiable reason, on application of the Department of Legal Affairs, the Supreme Court shall issue a warrant directing the sentence to be executed during a week designated in the warrant.

History.--s. 275, ch. 19554, 1939; CGL 1940 Supp. 8663(285); ss. 11, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 141, ch. 70-339; s. 1, ch. 70-439.