The Convict's Code

Landis is about to go to the chair for murdering Carroll, but his lover Taylor begs Cummings, the governor, to stay the execution. She recounts Landis' story, told in flashback, how he is inveigled by Carroll to her apartment where she foists herself upon him but he will have none of her. She is shot and killed after Taylor and Evans enter the apartment, and Landis is blamed for the killing. After hearing the story, Cummings still isn't convinced of Landis' innocence and orders the execution to continue. As fate and Hollywood would have it there is a prison break just before the juice is thrown, and Evans, one of the escapees, is mortally wounded and confesses to m...