{"data":{"id":"us-co/c.r.s.-16-17-101","jurisdiction":"us-co","citation":"C.R.S. § 16-17-101","heading":"Governor may commute sentence.","body":"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.","path":["Title 16 - CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS","Article 17 - Commutation of Sentence"],"source_url":"https://olls.info/crs/crs2026-title-16.htm","current_through":"Colorado Revised Statutes 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:37:45Z","sha256":"a8650f56e7b58d04365a9b49f9f433e7dccb81780457c06ce23638f17cbd7aa9","source_id":"us-co","stale":false,"prev":"us-co/c.r.s.-16-16-103","next":"us-co/c.r.s.-16-17-102"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}