Executive Order 1115—Amending Section 149 of the Laws of the Canal Zone, Concerning Penalties for Murder in the First Degree
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.
William Howard Taft, Executive Order 1115—Amending Section 149 of the Laws of the Canal Zone, Concerning Penalties for Murder in the First Degree Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/364908