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S.B. No. 1071
1 SECTION 2. Article 43.15, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
2 amended to read as follows:
3 Art. 43.15. WARRANT OF EXECUTION. (a) Whenever any person
4 is sentenced to death, the clerk of the court in which the sentence
5 is pronounced[-r] shall, not later than the 10th day [witinte-n
6 4a-ys] after the court enters its order setting the date for
7 execution, issue a warrant under the seal of the court for the
8 execution of the sentence of death, which shall recite the fact of
9 conviction, setting forth specifically the offense, the judgment of
10 the court, and the time fixed for the [h-i-1] execution, and which
11 shall be directed to the director of the correctional institutions
12 division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice [Dirctr-of
13 the]epartment of- at Huntsville, Texas, commanding the
14 director [h4i] to proceed, at the time and place named in the order
15 of execution, to carry the same into execution, as provided in [t-h-e
16 p--ee44.-eq] Article 43.14, and shall deliver such warrant to the
17 sheriff of the county in which such judgment of conviction was had,
18 to be [by-k n] delivered by the sheriff to the director [ea4419 ]r:t-r-- of the Department of-o, together with the
20 condemned person if the person [he] has not previously been so
21 delivered.
22 (b) At the time the warrant is issued under Subsection (a),
23 the clerk of the court shall send a copy of the warrant to:
24 (1) the attorney who represented the condemned person
25 in the most recently concluded stage of a state or federal
26 postconviction proceeding;
27 (2) the attorney representing the state; and2
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Texas. Legislature. Senate. 84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1071, Chapter 951, legislative document, June 18, 2015; [Austin, Texas]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth704336/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.