Statutes > Arkansas Statutes > Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts > Subtitle 6 - Criminal Procedure Generally > Chapter 90 - Judgment And Sentence Generally > Subchapter 5 - Execution of Sentence -- Death Penalty > § 16-90-501 - Delivery of copy of judgment and convict to penitentiary.

§ 16-90-501 - Delivery of copy of judgment and convict to penitentiary.

16-90-501. Delivery of copy of judgment and convict to penitentiary.

(a) The clerk of the court in which is pronounced the sentence of death against any convict shall deliver a certified copy thereof to the superintendent of the penitentiary as soon as may be after the sentence.

(b) When a judgment of death is pronounced upon any person upon conviction of a capital offense, the person shall be immediately conveyed to the state penitentiary by the sheriff of the county in which the trial was held and shall be delivered to the keeper or superintendent of the state penitentiary and kept there awaiting execution.