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The court may defer the execution of a sentence:\n(a) If the convict who shall serve the same is seriously ill, his condition certified by medical testing to the satisfaction of the court. The sentence shall no longer be in effect after ten (10) calendar years have elapsed.\n(b) If a pregnant woman or if six (6) months have not yet elapsed since the childbirth.\n(c) If other circumstances so do warrant for a term of not more than ten (10) days.\nHistory —June 18, 2004, No. 149, § 77, eff. May 1, 2005.