Section 42 – Warrant of Distress to Compel Payment of Penalty or Assessment
Section 42. If judgment is rendered against a corporation upon an indictment or complaint under the laws of the commonwealth, the court may issue a warrant of distress to compel payment of the penalty or assessment, as the case may be, as prescribed by law, together with interest thereon if so ordered by the court. […]
Section 57 – Death Sentence; Pronouncement or Revocation of Stay; Warrant of Conviction; Execution of Sentence; Certified Copy of Record to Governor
Section 57. Immediately upon the pronouncing of the sentence of death upon a person convicted of a capital crime, and immediately upon the revocation under section four of the stay of execution of such a sentence, the clerk shall make, sign and deliver to the sheriff of the county where the conviction is had a […]
Section 24 – Indeterminate Sentence to State Prison; Determination of Sentence for Offender Aged Fourteen Through Seventeen
Section 24. If a convict is sentenced to the state prison, except as an habitual criminal, the court shall not fix the term of imprisonment, but shall fix a maximum and a minimum term for which he may be imprisoned. The maximum term shall not be longer than the longest term fixed by law for […]
Section 58 – Death Sentence Confinement; Psychiatric Examination; Transfer or Failure to Transfer to General Prison Population; Appeal; Hearing; Annual Record Review; Court Order
Section 58. The sheriff of the county in a jail whereof a prisoner sentenced to the punishment of death is confined, or a deputy designated by the sheriff, within ten days after receipt by the sheriff of the warrant for the execution of such sentence shall, at a time chosen by the sheriff, convey such […]
Section 25 – Punishment of Habitual Criminals
Section 25. (a) Whoever is convicted of a felony and has been previously twice convicted and sentenced to state prison or state correctional facility or a federal corrections facility for a term not less than 3 years by the commonwealth, another state or the United States, and who does not show that the person has […]
Section 59 – Execution of Death Sentence; Time Constraints
Section 59. The sentence of death shall be executed by the superintendent of the state prison, or by a person acting under his direction, not earlier than twenty days nor later than thirty days after service upon said superintendent, or officer performing his duties, of a certificate of the clerk of the court that the […]
Section 26 – Further Sentence of Convict in State Prison
Section 26. A convict under sentence of imprisonment in the state prison may be further sentenced for a maximum term not longer than the longest term fixed by law for the punishment of the crime for which he has been convicted, and a minimum term not less than one year.
Section 60 – Means of Execution of Death Sentence
Section 60. The punishment of death shall be inflicted by causing a current of electricity of sufficient intensity to cause death to pass through the body of the prisoner, the application of said current to be continuous until he is dead or, at the election of the prisoner, by intravenous injection of a substance or […]
Section 27 – Immediate Execution of Sentence to State Prison of Convict Sentenced to Jail or House of Correction
Section 27. If a convict serving a sentence of imprisonment in a jail or house of correction is convicted of a felony, the court may impose sentence of imprisonment in the state prison and order it to take effect forthwith, notwithstanding the former sentence. The convict shall thereupon be removed to the reception center established […]
Section 61 – Capital Crime Conviction; Imposition of Sentence; Insane and Pregnant Persons
Section 61. If a person convicted of a capital crime is, at the time when sentence is to be imposed, found by the court to be insane, it may cause such person to be removed to one of the state hospitals for such term and under such limitations as it may order. If a person […]