CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS 1235

Death Penalty.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 405. 1922, ch. 465, sec. 1.

483. If an offender, on conviction, may be sentenced to suffer death,
the Court before whom such offender shall be tried and convicted, shall
sentence him to suffer death by hanging by the neck; and when a case has
been removed for trial and the party shall be sentenced to be hung, the
Court shall remand him to the place where the indictment was found, where
such offender shall remain, in the custody of the Sheriff of that county or
city for disposition as hereinafter provided.

See secs. 668 and 669.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 406. 1922, ch. 465, sec. 2.

484. Punishment of death must be inflicted within the walls of the
building hereinafter provided; and shall not be executed earlier than
thirty days after the sentence is pronounced.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 407. 1922, ch. 465, sec. 3.

485. The Warden of the Maryland Penitentiary is hereby authorized
and directed to provide and maintain a permanent death chamber within
the confines of said Penitentiary, and which said death chamber shall have
all the necessary appliances for the proper execution of felons by hanging
by the neck until dead. In said death chamber shall be executed all felons
upon whom the death penalty has been imposed, for offenses committed on
or after January 1st, 1923. Each execution shall be conducted by the said
Warden or some assistant or assistants designated by him, in the presence
of, the Sheriff of the county or city where such felon was indicted, the
physician of the said Penitentiary, or his assistant, and a number of re-
spectable citizens numbering not less than six or more than twelve. Counsel
for the convict and two ministers of the gospel may be present.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 408. 1922, ch. 465, sec. 4.

486. When a person is sentenced to the punishment of death, the judge
presiding in the Court at which the conviction takes place, shall cause the
said felon to be taken into custody by the Sheriff of the county or city where
he was indicted, and to be held by him in solitary confinement as herein-
after provided when said felon is in the Penitentiary, as long as said felon
shall remain within the custody of the said Sheriff, and immediately upon
conviction the Clerk of the Court where the said felon was indicted shall
make out, sign and deliver to the Governor of the State of Maryland, a
copy of the docket entries in said case, showing fully the sentence of the
Court and the date thereof, and it shall be the duty of the Clerk of the
Court where such sentence is pronounced in case the indictment therein was
procured in another county or city, and the case removed thereto, to imme-
diately upon conviction and sentence, certify the proceedings to the Clerk
of the Circuit Court from whence said case was removed and the duty of the
Clerk of the Court upon the receipt of the mandate as to the notification
to the Governor, shall be as hereinbefore provided.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 409. 1922, ch. 465. sec. 5.

487. The Governor is authorized and required whenever a sentence is
pronounced on any criminal by the judgment of a Court of this State, and