Executive Order 1115
Under authority vested in me by law, it is ordered:
That Section 149 of Act No. 14 of the Laws of the Canal Zone is amended to read as follows:
- Sec. 149. Every person guilty of murder in the first degree shall suffer death, or if there be extenuating circumstances, confinement in the penitentiary for life; and every person guilty of murder in the second degree is punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than ten years.
Wm. H. Taft.
The White House,
- July 30, 1909.
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