176.486 - Authority to enter stay of execution. - Nevada Statutes

176.486  Authority to enter stay of execution.  A district court having proper jurisdiction 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 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)