Ch. 418                                    LAWS OF MARYLAND

superintendent of such hospital shall be of the opinion that said
defendant has recovered his sanity, he shall cause the Mental
Hygiene Administration to examine and pass upon the mental
condition of the defendant; and if the Mental Hygiene
Administration shall determine that said defendant is no longer
insane, he shall be removed to the Maryland Penitentiary and the
Governor shall issue forthwith his warrant appointing a week
within which the sentence must be executed.]

[(d)] The Governor shall have the power, in his discretion,
to grant a stay for any cause and, upon so doing, he shall issue
an order revoking the warrant theretofore issued. Thereafter, the
sentence shall not be executed until the Governor shall issue his
warrant appointing a week within, which the sentence must be
executed.

[(e)] (D) When a warrant is revoked by an order of court or
its execution is stayed, the clerk of the court by which the
warrant is revoked, or the clerk of the court by which the
sentence was imposed in the case of an appeal to the Court of
Special Appeals or on certiorari in the Court of Appeals and the
compliance with the requirements of Title 12 of the Courts
Article on appeals in criminal cases, shall notify the warden
forthwith, by telephone if necessary, that said warrant has been
revoked or its execution has been stayed, as the case may be, and
shall transmit forthwith to the warden a certificate that said
warrant has been revoked or its execution stayed. The Governor
shall notify the warden forthwith of the revocation of a warrant
by him.

[(f)] (E) Each warrant for the execution of a person
sentenced to suffer the death penalty shall appoint a week within
which the sentence must be executed, and shall command the warden
to execute the sentence upon some day within the week so
appointed. The week so appointed must begin not less than four
(4) weeks and not more than eight (8) weeks after the issuance of
the warrant. The time of the execution within such week shall be
left to the discretion of the warden of the Maryland
Penitentiary. No previous announcement of the day or hour of the
execution shall be made except to the persons who shall be
invited or permitted to be present at the execution, as
hereinbefore provided.

75A.

(A) IN THIS SECTION, THE FOLLOWING WORDS HAVE THE MEANINGS
INDICATED:

(1) "INMATE" MEANS AN INDIVIDUAL WHO HAS BEEN
CONVICTED OF MURDER AND SENTENCED TO DEATH; AND

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