PART IX
CONVICTIONS, JUDGMENT, SENTENCES AND THEIR EXECUTION IN THE SUBORDINATE COURTS AND HIGH COURT

C. - Sentences

(b) Sentence of Death

322.-(1) When any person is sentenced to death, he shall suffer death by hanging.

(2) When any person is sentenced to death the sentence shall direct that he suffers death by hanging.


323. When an accused person is sentenced to death, the court shall inform him of the period within which, if he wishes to appeal, his appeal should be preferred.


324. A certificate under the hand of the Registrar or other officer of the court that sentence of death has been passed, and naming the condemned person, shall be sufficient authority for the detention of that person.


325.-(1) As soon as conveniently as may be, after sentence of death has been pronounced, if no appeal from a sentence of death passed by the High Court is preferred or if an appeal from any sentence of death is preferred and the sentence is upheld on appeal, then as soon as conveniently may be after the determination of the appeal the presiding judge or magistrate exercising powers conferred on him by section 173 shall forward to the President a copy of the notes of evidence taken on the trial with a report in writing signed by him containing any recommendation or observations on the case he may think fit to make.

(2) After the report has been considered, the President shall communicate to the said judge or magistrate or his successor in office, the terms of any decision to which he has made, and such judge or magistrate shall cause the tenor and substance of that decision to be entered in the records of the court.

(3) The President shall issue a death warrant, or an order of the sentence of death to be commuted, or a pardon, under his hand and the seal of the United Republic to give effect to that decision. If the sentence of death is to be carried out, the warrant shall state the place where and the time when execution is to be had, and shall give directions as to the place of burial of the body of the person executed. If the sentence is commuted for any other punishment, the order shall specify that punishment. If the person sentenced is pardoned, the pardon shall state whether it is free or to what conditions, if any, it is subject.

(4) Subject to subsection (3), the warrant may direct that the execution shall take place at such time and at such place and that the body of the person executed shall be buried or cremated at such place, as shall be appointed by some officer specified in the warrant.

(5) The warrant or order, or pardon of the President shall be sufficient authority in law to all persons to whom it is directed to execute the sentence of death or other punishment awarded and to carry out the directions therein given in accordance with its terms.