Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-1.3-1401

Current through 11/5/2024 election

Section 18-1.3-1401 - Definitions

As used in this part 14, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "Colorado mental health institute" means the Colorado mental health institute at Pueblo.

(2) "Mentally incompetent to be executed" means that, due to a mental disease or defect, a person who has been sentenced to death is presently unaware that he or she is to be punished for the crime of murder or that the impending punishment for that crime is death.

C.R.S. § 18-1.3-1401

L. 2002: Entire article added with relocations, p. 1459, § 2, effective October 1.

This section is similar to former § 16-8-301 as it existed prior to 2002.