Authority to enter stay of execution.

NRS

176.486

Authority to enter stay of execution.

A district court having proper jurisdiction, the Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court, if it has proper jurisdiction, may stay the execution of a sentence of death when a postconviction petition for habeas corpus challenging a judgment of conviction or sentence has been filed only after appropriate notice has been given to the appropriate respondent in the case.

(Added to NRS by 1987, 1220 ; A 1991, 90 ; 2013, 1756 ; 2023, 1637 )