20-1015. RESPITES AND REPRIEVES. (1) The governor shall have power to grant respites or reprieves in all cases of convictions for offenses against the state, except treason or imprisonment on impeachment, but such respites or reprieves shall not extend beyond the next session of the commission; and such commission shall at such session continue or determine such respite or reprieve, or may commute or pardon the offense as herein provided.
(2) In cases of conviction of treason, the governor shall have the power to suspend the execution of the sentence until the case shall be reported to the legislature at its next regular session, when the legislature shall either pardon or commute the sentence, direct its execution or grant a further reprieve.
History:
[(20-1015) 20-240, added 1947, ch. 53, sec. 40, p. 59; 1969, ch. 419, sec. 8, p. 1160; am. 1988, ch. 323, sec. 1, p. 982; am. 2020, ch. 62, sec. 1, p. 145; am. and redesig. 2021, ch. 196, sec. 17, p. 535.]
Structure Idaho Code
Title 20 - STATE PRISON AND COUNTY JAILS
Chapter 10 - IDAHO COMMISSION OF PARDONS AND PAROLE
Section 20-1001 - DEFINITIONS.
Section 20-1004 - DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE COMMISSION.
Section 20-1006 - MEDICAL PAROLE — REQUIRED REPORT.
Section 20-1008 - PAROLE REVOCATION HEARING.
Section 20-1009 - NOTICE AND SERVICE TO AN ALLEGED PAROLE VIOLATOR — WAIVER OF HEARING.
Section 20-1010 - COMMISSION RULINGS AT A PAROLE REVOCATION HEARING.
Section 20-1011 - IMMUNITY FROM PAROLE OR RELEASE OF A PRISONER.
Section 20-1012 - FINAL DISCHARGE OF PAROLEE — MINIMUM TERM.
Section 20-1013 - PAROLE INFORMATION TO BE TRANSMITTED TO THE SHERIFF AND COUNTY PROSECUTOR.
Section 20-1014 - TRANSFER OF CONVICTED FOREIGN CITIZENS OR NATIONALS UNDER TREATY.
Section 20-1015 - RESPITES AND REPRIEVES.
Section 20-1016 - COMMUTATIONS AND PARDONS.
Section 20-1017 - REQUIRED PUBLICATIONS AND LIMITATION ON APPLICATIONS FOR COMMUTATIONS AND PARDONS.
Section 20-1018 - NOTICE OF GRANTED PARDON, COMMUTATION, OR REMISSION OF FINES AND FORFEITURES.