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Penal Code § 3602

CHAPTER 1. Executing Death Penalty

Current as of September 28, 2026Pen. Code, § 3602Official source ↗

Amended by Stats. 2005, Ch. 279, Sec. 14. Effective January 1, 2006.

Upon the affirmance of her appeal, the female person sentenced to death shall thereafter be delivered to the warden of the California state prison designated by the department for the execution of the death penalty, not earlier than three days before the day upon which judgment is to be executed; provided, however, that in the event of a commutation of sentence said female prisoner shall be returned to the Central California Women’s Facility, there to be confined pursuant to such commutation.