When the Commissioner of Corrections inflicts the punishment of death upon an inmate, in obedience to a warrant as aforesaid, he or she shall forthwith return a copy thereof with his or her doings thereon to the Office of the Secretary of State, and shall forthwith return the original warrant with his or her doings thereon to the court from which it was issued. The clerk thereof shall subjoin to the record of the sentence a brief abstract of the Commissioner's return upon such warrant. (Amended 1971, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 14.)