Upon application for a pardon by a person sentenced to capital punishment, if the governor is of opinion that the facts and circumstances adduced are not sufficient to warrant a total pardon, the governor may commute the punishment of death to imprisonment for life in the penitentiary. Code 1858, §§ 180, 5258 (deriv. Acts 1841-1842, ch. 55); Shan., §§ 232, 7233; Code 1932, §§ 174, 11839; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 40-3505. Upon application for a pardon by a person sentenced to capital punishment, if the governor is of opinion that the facts and circumstances adduced are not sufficient to warrant a total pardon, the governor may commute the punishment of death to imprisonment for life in the penitentiary. Code 1858, §§ 180, 5258 (deriv. Acts 1841-1842, ch. 55); Shan., §§ 232, 7233; Code 1932, §§ 174, 11839; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 40-3505. Upon application for a pardon by a person sentenced to capital punishment, if the governor is of opinion that the facts and circumstances adduced are not sufficient to warrant a total pardon, the governor may commute the punishment of death to imprisonment for life in the penitentiary. Code 1858, §§ 180, 5258 (deriv. Acts 1841-1842, ch. 55); Shan., §§ 232, 7233; Code 1932, §§ 174, 11839; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 40-3505. Upon application for a pardon by a person sentenced to capital punishment, if the governor is of opinion that the facts and circumstances adduced are not sufficient to warrant a total pardon, the governor may commute the punishment of death to imprisonment for life in the penitentiary. Code 1858, §§ 180, 5258 (deriv. Acts 1841-1842, ch. 55); Shan., §§ 232, 7233; Code 1932, §§ 174, 11839; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 40-3505.
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