NRS176.486. Authority to enter stay of execution. [Effective through December 31, 2014, and after that date unless the provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No. 14 (2011) are approved and ratified by the voters at the 2014 General Election.]

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A district court having proper jurisdiction or the Supreme Court, if it has proper jurisdiction, may stay the execution of a sentence of death when a postconviction petition for habeas corpus has been filed only after appropriate notice has been given to the appropriate respondent in the case.

(Added to NRS by 1987, 1220; A 1991, 90)

                    
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