29-2543: Person convicted of crime punishable by death; clerk of court; warrant; remove convicted person to Department of Correctional Services adult correctional facility.

Whenever any person has been tried and convicted before any district court in this state of a crime punishable by death and under the conviction has been sentenced by the court to suffer death, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the court before which the conviction was had to issue a warrant, under the seal of the court, reciting therein the conviction and sentence directed to the warden of the Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex, commanding him or her to proceed at the time named in the sentence to carry the same into execution by causing the person so convicted and sentenced to be electrocuted by the passage of an electric current through the body until dead. The clerk shall deliver the warrant to the sheriff of the county in which conviction was had and such sheriff shall thereupon forthwith remove such convicted person to a Department of Correctional Services adult correctional facility of the state and there deliver him or her, together with the warrant, into the custody of the warden who shall receive and safely keep such convict within a Department of Correctional Services adult correctional facility until the time of execution or until otherwise ordered by competent authority.